On the Cold Clothing Festival, Zheng Qing ultimately did not go buy any clothes.
It was not because he was short of money or did not know what to buy. Rather, when he returned to the dormitory that afternoon, he unexpectedly received two gifts.
One came from the girls' dormitory, the other from Qingqiu Mansion.
The gifts were remarkably similar: both were tiny articles of clothing Zheng Qing could never wear, winter outfits clearly meant for some short-haired cat.
The winter outfit from Qingqiu Mansion had thoughtfully included a fluffy tail cover. Once the black cat tucked his tail inside, it looked as though he had grown a fox tail. The one from the girls' dormitory, meanwhile, came with an extra pure-white fur collar that crossed over at the front; when worn around the neck, it resembled a lion's mane.
Two brief letters arrived with the gifts.
Their contents were unexpectedly similar as well—the letter from Qingqiu Mansion said that there had been leftover material after they made Poseidon's winter clothes, so they had cut an extra outfit for him. The letter from the girls' dormitory said they had made one winter outfit too many for Li Neng.
Poseidon was a one-and-a-half-year-old little fox.
Li Neng, meanwhile, was a plush bear.
Zheng Qing had never imagined that one day he would share "the bond of wearing the same uniform" with those two little creatures. Holding the two gifts, he was overwhelmed with emotion and shivered—compared to this, he would rather have received a dozen little Straw Men bristling with silver needles.
Holding the fat cat, Fatty Xin summed it up with a face full of envy and schadenfreude. "Just imagine it: a decent, promising young wizard who already has a widely known engagement, receiving two outfits on the Clothing Granting