Under the illumination of the desk lamp, the alarm clock sitting on the table ticked steadily onward.
Soft orange light, a little girl sitting at the desk doing her homework, and a mother standing behind her, seemingly tutoring her... it all looked peaceful.
...At least, that was how it appeared on the surface.
"..."
Looking at the woman standing behind the little girl at the desk, completely ignoring his presence in the room, Bai Zhi frowned slightly.
Following the spacetime coordinates provided by the Old General, he had used the Kunlun Mirror's power to precisely locate this time and place. Yet before he could figure out his surroundings, he found himself in an elementary school student's bedroom.
When he had seen the girl's parent come in earlier, for the sake of his lifelong reputation, he had planned to take out the Wooden Fish.
What he had not expected was that she would ignore him completely, as if he did not exist. But judging from the change in the little loli's expression when she had first seen him, she should have been able to see him.
"Did something go wrong with the time travel? Or..."
Bai Zhi shifted his gaze to the mother standing behind the little girl at the desk.
He had seen it clearly earlier.
—When that mother entered the room, a trace of fear had clearly appeared on the little loli's face.
And now, although she seemed to be supervising her daughter's studies, her behavior was far too strange.
She stood there without moving, her body ramrod straight, like a wooden puppet. Even her breathing was so faint it was nearly inaudible.
After thinking for a moment, Bai Zhi walked over to the desk and looked directly at the mother's face.
Then, with just that one glance, his