Unexpected events in life were like boils on the body: they always popped up without warning, leaving you irritated and restless, wanting nothing more than to carve them out along with the surrounding flesh.
That was exactly how Su Shijun felt right now.
A little earlier, when the School Guardian Formation had unfolded and the You Zui Hunting Team decided to venture deeper into the Silent Forest, this Senior Councilor of the Under the Moon Council had been enjoying afternoon tea in her own "bubble"—
When the afternoon clock struck four, everything stopped for afternoon tea.
Elegant, lively music flowed from the Trumpet Flower. Fine gold and silver inlay adorned the pristine bone-china tea set. Scalding black tea blended with chilled dragon-blood condensed milk to create the perfect temperature. Together with finger sandwiches filled with strawberry jam and smoked Wenyiao fish, as well as cream-covered scones, it made her feel as though she had returned to her carefree girlhood.
Of course, if she had to choose between the past and the present, she still preferred staying at the school.
Not because she liked the work in the school laboratories.
But because she liked the atmosphere there.
There was no tedious small talk or hollow Don Juans, no need to wear a stiff smile while dealing with those old fellows whose smiles never reached their eyes, no need to consider whether an invited guest had been involved in some obscure blood feud five hundred years ago, and no need to change into over a dozen gowns a day just to listen to different male wizards spout the same nonsense on the same dance floor.
She only needed to happily be herself.
That gave her ample energy to study magic, beauty treatments, and sleep in. It also gave her enough time for