Please Be My Leading Lady

In Hangzhou, inside a café near the Lingyin Temple Judgment Hall.

Mo Xie, Tang Yue, and Leng Qing sat around a small table, none of them speaking.

They all knew one another, yet the atmosphere had somehow turned awkward.

Caught between the two, Tang Yue felt she ought to break the silence and awkwardly started a conversation.

"Come to think of it, the coffee's taking a while. It still hasn't arrived."

"In that case, I'll go check on it."

Mo Xie's eyes lit up. He nodded gratefully at Tang Yue, tugged his cap lower, and got up to head for the counter.

Tang Yue reached out, wanting to call him back, but he had already reached the counter in the blink of an eye.

She had only wanted to find something to talk about. How had she ended up talking him right out of his seat?

Watching Mo Xie's tall, straight figure in the distance, Leng Qing asked Tang Yue with an air of casual indifference.

"Yueyue, would you mind telling me how you met Mo Xie?"

"Not at all. The Chief Judge sent me to Bo City to investigate the Black Vatican, and I happened to become Mo Xie's Magic Practicum teacher."

Tang Yue smiled and waved a hand as she explained.

At that, a faint sparkle appeared in her lovely eyes.

She had never imagined that going to Bo City would lead to so much happening between her and that little rascal.

"Oh, I see..."

Leng Qing blinked and nodded in understanding.

"What about you, Sister Qing? How did you meet Mo Xie?"

Tang Yue leaned a little closer, asking curiously.

"Me..."

Leng Qing smiled faintly. Without hiding anything, she gave a brief account of what had happened in Magic City.

By the time she finished, Tang Yue's