Xixi lunged into Ma Xiaotao's arms.
Ma Xiaotao, Jiang Hao, and the others had only just arrived at the Adventurers' Guild.
This was the Adventurers' Guild headquarters, after all, so they had come to take a look.
Bird Bro was listlessly wiping down a vase,
chatting off and on with Jiang Hao and the others as he watched Adventurers' Guild members come and go,
completing commissions with the help of Mechanical Marionettes.
Ma Xiaotao stared in surprise at Xixi, who had thrown herself into her arms and was crying her eyes out.
She looked up and saw Ling Luochen in the distance, her hair loose down her back. Warmth entered Ma Xiaotao's eyes.
Behind her, Chen Zifeng, Gongyang Mo, and Yao Haoxuan stood with their arms around one another's shoulders, grinning like fools.
"Shouldn't you be studying at Shrek?"
Ma Xiaotao brushed the corner of her eye with the back of her hand. "What are you doing here?"
Ma Xiaotao still remembered quite a lot from back then. By all rights,
Ling Luochen and the others should have been able to enter the Inner Court by now. Why were they on the streets of Heaven Dou City at the start of the school year?
At those words, Gongyang Mo recalled the humiliation he had suffered and could not help stepping forward to speak.
"It's all that wretched Xuan Zi's fault! We're better off without a school like that!
Xiaotao, you have to stand up for us. Xuan Zi bullied us."
As he spoke, his gaze strayed toward Xuan Zi, who was inside the Adventurers' Guild drinking and laughing with Yan Shaozhe. The man wore a white robe, had a scruffy beard, and carried that unmistakable wine gourd.
Gongyang Mo swallowed.
"Xuan... Xuan... Zi..."
Fear tangled his tongue. Xuan Zi was