Unsheathed

In the beginning, Yu Lu had enjoyed an entire dorm to himself. Afterward, Prince Gao Xuan moved in as his roommate, after which the two of them developed a close relationship and never left each other's side.

Yet, not long ago, Yu Lu had ended up becoming a lonesome person again. This was because Gao Xuan had secretly left Mountain Cliff Academy and gone to Forest Deer Academy located in the Dragon Spring Prefecture's Cloud Drape Mountain. Gao Xuan explained that he was going there to seek knowledge, yet those with a discerning eye could easily see through his lie and understand the truth. Prince Gao Xuan was nothing more than a royal hostage of the Great Li Empire.

After the Great Li Empire's Imperial Song Clan and the Great Sui Nation's Imperial Gao clan signed those treaties and became allies with each other, it wasn't just Gao Xuan who had traveled to the Great Li Empire as a hostage. In addition to him, an eleventh tier gatekeeper of the Great Sui Nation's capital and the initially retired old flood dragon of the Yellow Court Nation had also traveled to the Great Li Empire to become assistant mountain masters of the newly constructed Forest Deer Academy.

Yu Lu had accompanied Gao Xuan to the foot of the mountain before stopping and not seeing him off any further.

Today morning, Yu Lu had unexpectedly knocked on the courtyard door of a standalone residence.

The person who answered the door was Xie Xie.

Yu Lu saw her open the door with a broom in her hand.

Even though Cui Dongshan had already left the academy for a long time, it appeared as if Xie Xie was still working diligently as a maidservant every single day.

"Why are you here?" Xie Xie asked with a stern expression.

Yu Lu smiled faintly and replied, "I suddenly realized that I haven't seen you for a long time, so I decided to come over here to visit."

"Okay, you've already seen me now, so what next?" Xie Xie asked.