Chapter 354: Warm Welcome for a Return from the Cold
Wan Ai quietly sat in her room, bored nearly to tears. She had pretty much memorized all her manuals by that point, so there was literally no point in going over them again. Worse, she was so close to reaching Foundation Establishment that she couldn’t cultivate. At all.
She supposed she could practice making mortal grade pills. Again. Which was what she’d been doing almost every hour of the day for a week.
Knock. Knock.
The sound of a fist gently rapping on her door made her nearly jump out of her seat. Though she wasn’t expecting anyone, she rushed to greet whoever it was. After all, any distraction was welcome at that point.
When she opened her door, though, she almost shut it again immediately. A strange man stood there. Tall, scruffy, and wearing a dirty and torn robe, the man—easily in his early twenties—looked like someone she’d run away from if she saw him on the street.
The only reason she didn’t slam the door was that she didn’t want him accosting any of her sect mates. “How did you get in here? Leave immediately, or I’ll call for the guards!”
Yes. The guards. Calling them. That was exactly what she should do.
Her heart was racing a mile a minute, and she found herself reflecting that she was glad she didn’t have to fight enemies like so many of her sect mates did. She couldn’t handle the excitement or the stress.
“What?” From his expression, the man was clearly confused, which made no sense. “Oh. I wanted to test them to see if they’d notice me. They didn’t.”
His words did not calm her. In fact, they made things worse. Was he an assassin? Would he kill her?
He gripped one of his fingers with his opposite hand, and she tensed, fearing that he was about to pull out a weapon. Instead, he … transformed. Instantly, Zou Tian stood in front of her, wearing his normal sect robe.
“Hi,” he said brightly.