The Black Gemstone Cat frowned, sitting properly on the desk before a thesis nearly an inch thick. It had already been flipped to page 183, with more than a hundred pages still left to read.
Su Shijun sat diagonally across from it, wearing rimless glasses with diamond-cut edges and studying the stack of experimental reports in her hand. Several Quill Pens danced as though following an elegant rhythm, weaving back and forth as they marked and annotated the pages.
For a while, the study contained only the soft scratching of pen tips on paper and the intermittent rustle of turning pages.
This made the Black Gemstone Cat, which had been holding a sigh in its mouth, especially miserable.
It could not help raising its head to glance out the window.
Today was Thursday, May 20th on the Gregorian calendar and the seventh day of the fourth lunar month. It happened to be a waxing half-moon. Cold moonlight streamed through the tall glass windows into the study, seeming to gather consciously around Su Shijun, making her already dazzling presence shine even more brilliantly.
It also made the Black Gemstone Cat curled up in the corner of the desk seem even smaller and weaker.
It longed for the moonlight.
It longed for freedom even more!
But constrained by its original body's demands, it could only obediently come to Qingqiu Mansion to "review" its own Graduation Thesis—this was already its third consecutive day reading the thesis before it.
It had never imagined its Graduation Thesis would be this thick!
What upset the cat even more was that it could not understand more than half the thesis. It only vaguely understood many of the terms. The further it read, the weaker its confidence in graduating successfully became. So much so that Zheng Qing, after