Number 54 Courtyard, West District of Beta Town

After flying out of the office building, the paper crane flapped its wings and wobbled onward against the cold wind.

Along the way, it encountered several Two-tailed Squirrels that had slipped out of their tree hollows to play despite the bitter cold. Relying on their ability to glide through the air with their tails, those mischievous rodents had tried to catch the paper crane.

However, it had been personally folded by the headmaster of Jiuyou Academy. With just a few extra flaps of its wings, it easily escaped the squirrels' clutches.

Leaving the Office Building, crossing the small square, and passing through the long woodland path, the paper crane did not fly directly over Linzhong Lake. Although a thin layer of ice now covered the lake, that did nothing to diminish the dangerous aura hanging over its waters. So it made a wide detour, following the lakeside corridor toward the academy grounds' exit.

Its destination was a grand residence in West District of Beta Town.

Unlike Beta Town North District, which was filled with those lowly tricksters, or the south district, which housed poor Low-level Wizards, West District of Beta Town had always been considered an upper-class neighborhood by the Wizarding World. Many Wizarding Families—including the O'Briens, Talbots, Currans, Zhongshan Jiang Clan, Shuzhong Tang Clan, and the metropolitan Blair Family—owned property in this community.

The Qingqiu Su Clan was naturally no exception.

Number 54 Courtyard, West District of Beta Town, was a grand residence with a beautiful garden. A home of such scale was exceedingly rare in land-starved Beta Town.

Compared with the neighboring courtyards on either side, Number 54 Courtyard looked remarkably approachable. There were neither tall blue-gray walls surrounding it, nor terrifying Gargoyles with vicious faces and somber colors constantly watching passersby, nor a wooden sign ten meters