Yet when she turned around, Yun Xi was standing there, a smile on her little face.
"Junior Sister Lan Yue, your drawing is amazing! You're the best artist I've ever seen!" Yun Xi's eyes brimmed with admiration.
As expected of Junior Sister Lan Yue! She only joined the Formation Pavilion yesterday, and today she'd already drawn such a perfect formation diagram!
Under that admiring gaze, Lan Yue blushed too.
"I-it was nothing!"
"Oh, right, yesterday..." Lan Yue was just about to ask about yesterday's male lead when she spotted a little yellow fluffball hanging motionless from Yun Xi's waist, like a dangling corpse.
It wasn't that Lan Yue was overreacting. The yellow Little Furball had only one paw tied up, with his entire body dangling from it, making him look more like a furry pendant.
[Lan Yue: Oh my god, the male lead! Since when was the male lead this miserable? What on earth happened to him?]
Only then did Yun Xi catch on, and she hurriedly tucked the little fluffball farther into her waistband.
"Junior Sister Lan Yue, I don't know what happened to this Black-and-Yellow Fluffball. He suddenly changed color last night. I was just going to have Elder Fang take a look. He might know why."
In truth, Yun Xi had never intended to ask about it at all. But since Lan Yue had brought it up, she had no choice but to lift the yellow Little Furball out again.
"Then shall we go ask together?" Lan Yue wasn't sure why the male lead had suddenly changed color either. After all, she'd read the original novel so quickly that she hadn't noticed some of the details.
Who would pore over every little detail in a cultivation novel several million words long?
The two arrived at the Alchemy