Early the next morning.
Bai Xuanling pushed open the door. In the end, she had not made Chu Xingchen vacate his room.
She had only been joking. It was not as though she truly knew nothing of social niceties.
Besides, she was not used to staying in rooms others had occupied. She carried a portable cave abode herself.
The splendid, imposing building behind Bai Xuanling, which occupied a large patch of open ground, was her portable cave abode.
She had heard yesterday's festivities, too. They had been rather heartwarming.
Bai Xuanling swept her gaze around and found only a cute, well-behaved-looking little girl sitting on a stone chair, quietly reading.
She looked very much like Xie Lingyu, who had trailed after her as a child.
A faint smile could not help spreading across her face.
Yesterday's birthday party could be considered to have ended satisfactorily. After giving her instructions, Bai Xuanling had not disturbed Chu Xingchen and the others' birthday celebrations again.
Bai Xuanling knew it would not have been appropriate for her to linger on such an occasion.
It was just as she had said at the outset.
Bai Xuanling truly had not come specifically to pick a fight.
Her disciple was tight-lipped. No matter how she fished for information about her sweetheart, she refused to admit anything.
But Xie Lingyu had changed far too much. Bai Xuanling truly did not understand how, in just a few short years, Xiao Lingyu seemed to have developed an entirely different temperament.
She had also grown considerably more shrewd.
Of course, growing more shrewd was naturally no bad thing.
Her only fear was that she had developed that shrewdness after being deceived too many times.
How many bitter losses would that have taken?
Still, when it came to love, there was ultimately