Chapter 2673
"So, last Christmas was the first time you met the gentleman with him?"
Jiang Yu suddenly looked at Su Shijun and asked this rather abruptly. She put slight emphasis on the words "with him," meaning any previous meetings did not count.
The mistress of Qingqiu Mansion blinked, hesitating slightly as if considering how to answer.
The black cat crouching at the corner of the table, however, foolishly opened his mouth.
"Yes, that's right."
The black cat flicked the tip of his tail rapidly and hurriedly answered, "You normally can't even catch sight of the old man. It was only because He'd long said He would bless Poseidon that we managed to corner Him in the bookstore on Christmas—more precisely, that night. Didn't Senior Colmar come along that day too?"
Su Shijun shot him a glance, smiling without quite smiling.
"Mm, if you mean your gentleman, I met him during my freshman year." The witch before the desk nodded faintly and added calmly, "...So he was the principal."
That head start finally erased the advantage the mistress of the mansion had created earlier.
The black cat secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Just as he occasionally existed in a superposition of human and cat, he felt that tonight he had remained in a superposition of getting beaten up and staying safe. If he did not want the worse possibility to collapse into reality, he could only strive to maintain a delicate balance.
To stop Su Shijun from bringing up the Christmas gift the gentleman had given her again,
Zheng Qing had no choice but to rack his brains and speak first before the two witches came to their senses, steering the conversation elsewhere. "When I had dinner with Doctor yesterday—I mean Xiao Xiao—I heard a very interesting opinion... Do