Time rewound to half a month ago.
The day before Jiang University started its new term.
All the procedures had been arranged, and teachers for every major had been properly assigned.
After more than half a year, Jiangcheng University was finally about to welcome a new school year.
At that moment, Gu Mingxuan arrived at the Principal's Office.
Seeing Li Ping seated at his desk, Gu Mingxuan unceremoniously sat across from him, picked up the teapot on the desk, and poured himself a cup.
Watching this, Li Ping glared and snapped, "You really don't stand on ceremony. Did I say you could drink that?"
"Old Li, I was the one who gave you this West Lake Longjing, wasn't I?"
After taking a sip, Gu Mingxuan immediately recognized it as the tea he had brought back from Hangzhou last time.
"You learned how to taste tea? You can tell that?"
Li Ping raised an eyebrow, though he did not particularly mind Gu Mingxuan's disrespectful behavior.
Their relationship had always been both teacher and friend, and professionally speaking, neither was inferior to the other.
"I can't tell the difference between one famous tea and another..."
Gu Mingxuan shook his head, then smiled faintly. "But I can still tell the difference between tea worth thousands and tea worth a few dozen yuan."
Li Ping asked doubtfully, "What do you mean by that?"
"This West Lake Longjing came from a little shop by West Lake. Sixty-eight eighty, with free delivery."
"You brat, you actually used tea worth a few dozen yuan to show filial respect to your teacher?"
"Old Li, you don't care about that stuff anyway."
"Hey, you—"
Li Ping had just been about to pretend to get angry when he choked on his own saliva and began coughing.
Gu Mingxuan stood up,