Early the next morning, Li Xia came out of her room to find that Li Cheng had already made breakfast.
As usual, Li Xia sat at the dining table and ate breakfast. Halfway through, she realized that Teacher Gu had not come out today.
Li Xia looked at Li Cheng, who was wearing an apron, and asked in confusion, "Where's Teacher Gu?"
"I don't know. He'd usually be out by now. I'll go check."
Li Cheng headed toward Gu Mingxuan's room, opened the door, and looked inside.
Gu Mingxuan was standing by the window in a daze, staring out at the view. No one knew what he was looking at.
Li Cheng walked in, came up beside Gu Mingxuan, and asked curiously, "What are you looking at so intently?"
Hearing Li Cheng's voice, Gu Mingxuan did not move. His gaze rested on the distant horizon as he said with a sigh, "My whole life, I've been walking on thin ice."
Li Cheng: ...
"Why did you suddenly say that?" Li Cheng asked.
"I had a dream yesterday. It was like my life flashing before my eyes—I dreamed about many things I'd experienced in the past. Then I suddenly realized that my life had been incredibly boring."
"You've been playing too much Three Kingdoms Kill."
Li Cheng delivered his brutally honest assessment.
The fact that he could say the words "walking on thin ice" was enough to prove that the algorithm had finally noticed Gu Mingxuan.
In the past, the algorithm had never known what to recommend to Gu Mingxuan, so his short-video feed had been terribly boring, with nothing interesting to watch.
But now, things were different.
Had an immortal fallen into the mortal world at last and finally experienced the troubles of ordinary people like them?
Li Cheng was