Brutally Beaten on the First Day of the Lunar New Year

Liu Chang'an and An Nuan returned home to find that Liu Yuewang had gotten back before them. She had taken off her coat and changed into a long red house shirt and black wide-leg pants. Her figure was light and graceful; coming in from the bitter winter cold and deep snow outside, she was a pleasing sight to behold.

"Back so early?" An Nuan took a thin jacket and draped it over Liu Yuewang's shoulders, lest Professor Liu catch a cold while showing off her excessively curvaceous figure.

"Don't mention it. We went to pay New Year's calls at an old professor's home, and somehow he found out that they hadn't originally planned to visit him. He remembered how the dean had shared an office with him back in the day and never invited him to dinner gatherings, so he beat up the dean." Liu Yuewang was unconcerned, and the more she thought about it, the funnier it seemed. "They're both so old already... Luckily, nothing serious happened. The old professor took some medicine and lay down, while the dean was too embarrassed to stay. Naturally, the rest of us dispersed too."

"Pfft... They're that old and still getting into fights." An Nuan could not help laughing.

"That's perfectly normal. Leaving someone out of a dinner gathering without informing them is no different from a life-and-death grudge." Liu Chang'an nodded in complete agreement.

"How is it that serious?" An Nuan recalled that she and Bai Hui were friends now, though they had not gotten along in high school. Still, there had never been a dinner or event where one deliberately failed to notify the other.

For example, at that KTV gathering where Liu Chang'an confessed to her, she had not gone, but Bai Hui had notified her in the first