Xu Qizhen felt he could start thinking ahead about what he would say the next time he saw her.
Today, because he hadn't been very eloquent, he hadn't managed to say much to her.
Next time, he couldn't let that happen.
The corners of Xu Qizhen's tightly pursed lips lifted a little despite himself.
Just thinking about there being a next time...
He couldn't help feeling overjoyed.
He really was easy to please.
Xu Qizhen smiled wryly at himself.
But the smile in his eyes only deepened.
Just knowing that today wasn't the last time he'd see her made the bubbles of joy welling up inside him almost impossible to contain.
"Student Xiao."
Xu Qizhen remembered what he'd said earlier.
"You really are my lucky star."
Student Xiao had helped him out so many times.
This time, he'd even brought her right to him.
For some reason, Xu Qizhen felt that as long as Student Xiao was around, any difficulty would be easily resolved.
"Thank you."
"Student Xiao, you're really amazing."
Especially...
"You can hear her voice, and you can see her, too."
Xu Qizhen looked at Xiao Xiao with awe and admiration.
Student Xiao was someone who could see monsters.
"Student Xiao."
Xu Qizhen suddenly thought of something.
"Are there many people who can see her, like you can?"
He was really curious.
Were there people around him who could see her, too?
So there really was a group of people in the world with special abilities like that.
He'd never known about it before.
If not for the time they'd spent together as children, followed by the long years of searching and waiting, he wouldn't have believed these unbelievable things he'd heard.
He would have wondered whether the person telling him all this was too