Later, by the campfire, she poked his shoulder and said, "When we get back, you have to treat me to Drunken Immortal Tower."
He agreed.
After returning from the Star Dou Forest, he immediately went into seclusion to condense his Soul Core, and after emerging, he had been busy reporting to Mu En.
He had never found the chance to fulfill that promise.
Just as he was thinking about it, someone knocked on the office door.
"Dean Xian, I'm coming in." Wu Ming pushed the door open and entered. She still wore that crimson-gold fitted outfit, and her eyes still shimmered with golden light.
Her short hair was slightly longer than it had been in the Star Dou Forest, the ends curling faintly upward. A stretch of collarbone, tanned a light honey color by the sun, showed at the neckline of her outfit.
Her long, straight legs moved with crisp decisiveness beneath the fitted clothes, each step planted firmly and steadily.
Her entire person carried the distinctive warm, sunlit aura of the Golden Crow martial soul.
Her gaze swept around the office. She first nodded in greeting to Xian Lin'er, then settled on Lin Ciyan.
At that single glance, her pupils brightened slightly...
The promise by the Star Dou campfire had replayed in her heart more times than she could count.
And now, the person she had made that promise with was sitting properly across from her.
The scene from that time instantly surged back, making her heart skip a beat.
"Junior Ciyan, you're back."
Wu Ming's voice remained as bright and clear as ever, but its ending rose ever so slightly, unable to conceal her surprise and delight.
She had received the academy's assignment, but she had not known that the other instructor would be Lin Ciyan.
That was