Chapter 2826: The Fourteenth Monday
Sometimes, silence served the same purpose as the leaf covering Adam or Eve's lower body: it concealed shame and ugliness. When you could not find any excuse and had no answer, silence could quietly hide your embarrassment, emptiness, shallowness, foolishness, and so on.
Yet the witch's calm gaze was like two small knives, peeling away the awkwardness Zheng Qing had wrapped in silence and leaving his spirit nakedly exposed to the air.
It left him at a loss.
Zheng Qing spent the entire afternoon in a daze. He had no idea what the professor of Talisman Diagram Studies had taught that day, did not notice what he had eaten for dinner, and if Xiao Xiao had not reminded him, he would have nearly forgotten that he had a Yin Talisman Studies class that evening.
Just as he hurriedly rushed down Dormitory Hill,
a short figure blocked his path.
"Old Yao wants to see you."
Zhu Si stood before him with her hands on her hips. Though short, she was in no way lacking in presence.
After so long apart, she still looked the same, almost no different from when Zheng Qing had first met her in the Mirror World, apart from that crimson mark in the center of her forehead.
Of course, perhaps she had changed, and it was merely Zheng Qing's memory deceiving him.
"Me? Now?"
The young wizard took out his Pocket Watch and checked the time, hesitating for a moment. "Did he say what it was about? I still have a class tonight. It's about to begin..."
Poof!
A flash of dark red spell-light passed by, and the Little Witch instantly became a beautiful, tall witch radiating mature charm. Only her face still faintly retained traces of how she had looked moments