With the "Red Name" hanging over his head, Zheng Qing immediately became much more obedient and well-behaved.
The next day was Saturday, and he still had five classes to attend. Because of the meeting the previous night, the young wizard did not remove his Invisibility Talisman or Dust Repelling Talisman all day. For safety's sake, he even went to Qingqiu Mansion to mooch lunch.
Those devils would not dare poison someone in an Archwizard's residence, would they?
Of course, he had not come to Qingqiu Mansion solely to freeload a meal—nearly a week had passed since Su Shijun had discussed his Graduation Thesis with him. During that time, Beauty Su had given him no assignments at all, as if the matter had simply ended and become non-existent after their conversation that day.
Thinking of how Jiang Yu still had to squeeze time out of class breaks to look up material related to her Graduation Thesis while he himself had nothing to do, Zheng Qing felt strangely abandoned by time.
"I assigned you a task ages ago!"
The mistress of Qingqiu Mansion appeared deeply surprised by her young assistant's unease. "Didn't I tell you to find time to visit the Relevant Department and have a chat with that Shadow Cat? Do you have a record of your conversation yet?"
As she spoke, she elegantly spread a little pomegranate jam over the grilled cod with her dinner knife, then cut it into evenly sized cubes and arranged them neatly on the plate.
Watching her cut the fish, Zheng Qing could not help thinking of his own severed shadow.
The last time he had "parted" with his shadow, things had not gone very pleasantly. In order to escape from beneath Zheng Qing's feet, that shadow had done some outrageous things—such as draping itself