All the turmoil had ended last night. Sitting across from the elder on the garden balcony, relaxing in the gentle night breeze, Fang Ran heard Shui Linlang ask,
"Your plans from here on?"
His hand paused as he ate a biscuit. Scratching his cheek with a fingertip, Fang Ran thought for a moment before answering with a light smile,
"If nothing comes up, I'll probably stay in Beijing. If I run around causing trouble again, I'm afraid Ling will beat me to death when she wakes up."
Thinking of everything he had gone through in the past month or so, he sighed and smiled helplessly.
"Besides, it feels like it's been ages since I had any free time. I kind of want to live a peaceful campus life for a while. Jing University is a prestigious school I never would have dared dream of attending before."
"I imagined more than once how wonderful it would be if I could study there, so it'd be too much of a waste not to experience it properly now."
Since the start of the new semester, after he had rushed out through the school gates from the bonfire, his time on campus had been practically zero. Add in all the classes he had skipped while selling shaved ice during military training, and his campus life was utterly blank.
Whenever he thought about how many times he must have missed roll call, along with the terrible state his usual grades were probably in,
Fang Ran silently felt incredibly ashamed.
"Anyway, first I'll recover properly. After everything that happened in Europe, I realized that compared to a genuine Participant like Osphia..."
With a sigh, his tousled hair stirred in the night wind. Recalling that journey during which he had lost his powers, he held his cup