Zheng Qing ultimately failed to catch up with Jiang Yu.
When he rushed beneath the Astronomy Tower, a small gust of wind blew straight into his face, stinging his eyes. That was rare in the warm late spring. The wind was slight and swift, and paired with the suddenly darkening sky, it immediately gave him the sense that a storm was coming.
White willow fluff had gathered along the roadside, forming winding white trails. Students leaving class followed those trails, laughing and joking as they headed toward the dining hall.
Zheng Qing sighed and turned back toward the Astronomy Tower.
Everyone else had finished class, but he still had a Second Tier Battle Formation Theory class waiting in another time stream. Compared with searching for the witch's whereabouts, his most urgent task was to find an empty room for Time Conversion.
And unless something unexpected had happened, Jiang Yu should have gone to another time stream as well—their relationship now was like the distance between them at this moment: close at hand, yet impossible to reach.
The rest of Tuesday passed.
From lunch to the two afternoon classes.
Just as he had over the previous twenty-four hours, Zheng Qing never found a chance to apologize.
It made him wonder whether traditional magic had some kind of "Loach Charm" that could make someone impossibly slippery. Otherwise, why was Jiang Yu always able to avoid every moment when he tried to greet her with such perfect timing?
Not until the two Tuesday afternoon classes ended did he have to temporarily suspend his plan to keep looking for Jiang Yu. According to their agreement yesterday, it was time for him to go to Qingqiu Mansion for dinner.
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