In the original owner's memories, Old Principal Kaguya Daoyin was the only person who had always given him warmth.
Though they rarely met, though it was never spoken of, this protection, accumulated day after day without asking anything in return, was often the hardest kindness to repay.
"Grandpa Daoyin."
He bowed, and in the end, those were the only words he said.
The Old Principal smiled, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes relaxing.
"Good, good, good."
He said "good" three times in succession, his gaze lingering on Lu You for a long while.
"You're doing far better than I imagined. If Jingliu could see you now, who knows how happy she'd be."
As soon as he finished speaking, pale blue lines of light lit up beneath the Old Principal's feet.
Those lines emerged from the ground and spread out like ripples, tracing an intricate geometric pattern of nested layers across the office floor.
Finally, a Teleportation Array appeared.
"Come in. You must have plenty of questions, child," the Old Principal said.
Without hesitation, Lu You stepped straight into the glowing pattern.
The Old Principal couldn't possibly harm him. Otherwise, he would have died long ago.
A dizzying sensation of the world spinning swept over him.
This feeling... this wasn't ordinary spatial teleportation!
During the process, he clearly sensed some power compressing him, like a sheet of paper being folded, then folded again.
Then he slid along an invisible thread toward an exceedingly distant space, at once within arm's reach and at the ends of the earth.
Only after an unknown amount of time did the dizziness fade.
Lu You opened his eyes again, and his pupils abruptly contracted.
He was standing halfway up a snowy mountain.
Hard ice lay beneath his feet, with ancient rock strata tens of