"I'm not working on mystical runes. I'm not familiar with them."
"Not mystical runes?" Zhao Lingxiao's eyes shifted. "Then could it be Ritual Studies? I'm actually somewhat interested in Ritual Studies too..."
She watched Lin Yi's expression and ventured cautiously, "Or... Alchemy?"
"Hmm... your main field, Dreambuilding?"
"But I've never heard of this sort of thing helping anyone sleep in a dream... How strange."
Lin Yi sneered. "What if I majored in architecture?"
"I guessed right!" Zhao Lingxiao snapped her fingers, leaving Lin Yi speechless.
Lin Yi: "..."
Come on, you'd say that no matter what I said...
He felt that this little witch, who looked so pitiful but was actually devious inside, had an incredibly strong NPC vibe... the sort of NPC whose dialogue you couldn't skip no matter how hard you mashed the space bar, who could keep talking until your thumb started to ache.
"But... architecture... that sounds like such an ancient major..." Zhao Lingxiao tapped her lips with a finger, seemingly lost in thought.
But what I'm doing actually has nothing to do with architecture either... Lin Yi silently told himself as he watched her.
He silently climbed the steps and checked the time the moment he reached the top.
12:41.
The return trip had taken nearly twenty minutes.
Looking at Zhao Lingxiao, who was sticking close beside him, he said with a thoroughly serious expression, "I'm saying this one last time... if you keep following me, you'll have to bear all the consequences yourself. If something goes wrong, I definitely won't be able to save you."
Zhao Lingxiao still wore the same cheeky smile she had worn all along the way. "Relax, I get it! Come on, let's go!"
Seeing no change in her, Lin Yi fell silent for a moment, then said nothing more