"Teacher, what are you looking at?"
Liu Dao Wu followed the gaze of Woman beside him, looking diagonally ahead as he asked curiously.
He had been deeply worried about his teacher's condition lately.
He had no idea when it had started, but Woman seemed as though something had ensnared her soul. Her usual composure, the kind that would not falter even if a mountain collapsed before her, had vanished entirely. She always seemed a beat slow when speaking or acting, and sometimes she would suddenly look flustered and utterly at a loss.
Seeing the teacher he had always revered like a god reduced to this state gave Liu Dao Wu the creeps.
He even suspected that some bizarre creature had possessed her. Her strange reactions were simply too frightening.
In Liu Dao Wu's eyes, his teacher possessed extraordinary powers and could laugh off even matters of life and death. He racked his brains but could not imagine what could torment her to the point of leaving her so disoriented.
He had tried probing indirectly a few times, but Woman only shook her head each time, refusing to say a word.
Liu Dao Wu also knew perfectly well that, with his meager strength, he could do nothing to help with anything that troubled his teacher.
So he could only obediently keep his mouth shut.
Every day, he helped her set up and pack away her stall on schedule, never missed preparing her three meals, and did his utmost to look after her.
But just now, Liu Dao Wu suddenly noticed a spark of light appear in Woman's eyes, which had been vacant for days.
Delighted and puzzled, he craned his neck and peered along her line of sight.
Diagonally ahead lay Qin Siyang and [Yu Gu]'s shop. A dense crowd packed