When Wen Ning arrived at the school gates, Chen Mu was still teaching.
The elderly security guard sat in the gatehouse and spotted Wen Ning approaching through the window.
He instinctively glanced at the steel pitchfork leaning against the wall, then recognized Wen Ning and drew his hand back.
"Oh, here to see Teacher Chen again?"
Wen Ning nodded.
"I need to talk to her about something."
The old guard leaned halfway out of the gatehouse window, glanced toward the classroom building, then turned back and said,
"There's still one more lesson before the day ends. Wait here a bit. Teacher Chen's teaching right now. You won't find her even if you go in."
He brought a plastic stool out of the gatehouse and set it by the entrance.
"Have a seat while you wait."
This time, the old guard no longer treated Wen Ning as a suspicious character.
Wen Ning thanked him, took the stool, and sat down.
Everything had been settled with Huang San. He would come over in three days.
But persuading Huang San had been easy. The hard part was figuring out how to tell Chen Mu, I found you a guardian immortal. He's the very weasel who nearly screwed you over a few days ago. No matter how he phrased it, it sounded absurd.
While he was mulling it over, the bell rang.
Within minutes, students began streaming out of the classroom building. Chen Mu came out with a few of them, carrying a stack of exercise books and looking down as she spoke to a little girl beside her.
When she reached the gates, she looked up and spotted Wen Ning.
She hurried over.
"What brings you here?"
Chen Mu looked him up and down.
"Did you get everything sorted out?"
"I did."
Chen