The facts proved that the full day of leave Su Shijun had arranged for Zheng Qing was not excessive.
By the time the young scholarship student had completed all the reports and examinations and left the Two-Dimensional Evolution Laboratory, the sky had already been brushed with glittering moonlight.
Poseidon darted back and forth between the boy's steps like a little dog.
Even after walking a long way, Zheng Qing could still feel the needle-like gaze behind him—Su Ya had kept her lips pursed as she watched the man and fox leave. Ever since she had betrayed the Little Fox in the "door-opening incident," Poseidon had ignored her for nearly the entire day.
Su Ya did not dare lose her temper with Su Shijun, so she could only sulk and blame everything on Zheng Qing. While Zheng Qing filled out reports that afternoon, she either handed him a cup of cold tea or stuffed a worm-eaten fruit into his hands.
There was no reasoning with this sort of thing.
"Next time adults are talking, children shouldn't eavesdrop!" The young wizard looked at the little fox weaving around his feet and sternly warned, "Otherwise, your ears will turn into pig ears!"
"Chitter chitter chitter!"
"It's true! You didn't grow pig ears today because I took the curse for you... You'll see once I turn into a cat." Zheng Qing spouted nonsense with a perfectly straight face—he did not know how to educate children, but he could at least repeat the things adults had said to children in his memories.
"Chitter..."
Amid Poseidon's doubtful cries, the man and fox passed the teaching building. It was late, and the afternoon classes had ended long ago. Aside from the study rooms, there were hardly any people left in the building.
Zheng Qing let the little