The days flowed by in a steady, fulfilling rhythm. After about a week, the commotion over Ling Luochеn's relationship announcement gradually died down.
Although the students at the academy still occasionally whispered about it, once the novelty wore off, everyone's attention returned to their own cultivation and daily lives.
Huo Chen's life returned to normal, too.
Every day, he taught the core disciple class. Every other day, he went to the Frost Cultivation Room to guide Ling Luochеn. Occasionally, Ma Xiaotao dragged him to a small restaurant outside the academy for a meal, and in the evenings, he returned to Homecoming Cottage to keep the Ice Empress and Snow Empress company.
His days were peaceful and fulfilling, like a slowly flowing river. The surface was calm, but beneath it, new undercurrents were constantly gathering.
That afternoon, Huo Chen left the core disciple classroom and headed along the outer court's main road toward the administration building.
As he passed the library entrance, he glanced at the notice board. His gaze paused briefly on one of the notices.
It was a recruitment list for work-study positions in the outer court. The jobs included library assistant, cafeteria helper, and maintenance cleaner, with the applicants' names listed beside each position.
His gaze swept over the names and stopped at one line.
Jiang Nannan. Position: Library assistant. Note: Hired.
He stared at the name for a few moments, and the memory of their last meeting surfaced in his mind: the narrow alley in the poor district, the cramped little house, and her standing at the door with red-rimmed eyes, stubbornly refusing to let the tears fall.
He had healed her mother and warned the people from the Xuanming Sect. After that, he hadn't reached out to her again.
Partly because he really had been busy