Shi Yuezhen had barely entered Taiyi when her Eye Without Pupils drew considerable attention. Later, thanks to her talent in medicine, she was taken on as a personal disciple by Medical School Saint Jiang Shulan, and her name quickly became famous.
At Taiyi Academy, the Agricultural School had no shortage of troublemakers. Compared with Shi Yuezhen's smooth and dazzling rise, Cang Shu had a much harder time when he first arrived at Taiyi.
Cang Shu was so cold and indifferent, and so poor at taking other people's words to heart, that simply standing there without speaking gave those troublemakers the impression that he was thinking, "You got a problem with me?"
His senior martial brothers and sisters had to ask him three or five questions before they could get so much as a nod out of him.
Sometimes, though, he was just slow to react and hadn't quite understood what people meant.
People often spoke at length, using lots of polite pleasantries or making snide remarks. But most of the time, Cang Shu let his mind drift so he could rest, and rarely took in what they said.
During an Agricultural School class, Mei Chengyu sat beside him. Their exchanges were always brief. "Get up."
"Close the window."
"Move."
They had one thing in common: during one instructor's class, they both slept with their heads on their desks. They got along splendidly.
During that year at Taiyi, Cang Shu remembered no more than five people apart from his instructors. Mei Chengyu was one of them.
The year Shi Yuezhen was put on trial by the Legalists was also the first year Mei Chengyu stood in for his master, Sage Chang Gen, at a judgment.
Before entering the Tianjian Division, he saw the boy waiting outside.
The boy was silent and