Chapter 33 – Apprentice (Part 1) (1/2)

Between the Tradition Academy and the Herb Garden, there was an old wall that was covered with green ivy and dominated by moss.

Official Jin and Official Li leaned on the wall and eavesdropped on the conversation inside the library. Because the two were experts in xiu xing and the little princess didn’t hid anything, they heard the conversation and understood the situation. After they saw the action the princess made, suddenly they fell off the wall. It was a pretty bad fall.

From the library, sounds of heavy objects falling could be heard from far away but it didn’t affect the library. Inside the silent library, on the dark black floor there seemed to have a motionless picture. The picture depicted Luo Luo tightly hanging onto Chen Chang Sheng’s leg, who was acting like a sculpture not daring to move at all.

“Let go, let go of your hand first.”

Chen Chang Sheng felt very nervous, to the point that even his sound got somewhat shaken. Although this little girl just seemed to be a little older than ten, she’s was still a girl. Having his leg get hanged on tightly by a pair of small hands was extremely embarrassing. He didn’t dare to move but only unstoppably yelled out.

“If I let go my hand, master will run away.” Luo Luo said seriously.

Chen Chang Sheng felt helpless. He immediately promised “Don’t worry, I absolutely won’t run away. Now can you let go your hands? After you let go then we can talk.”

Luo Luo appeared very yielding. She trusted what he said and released her hands. Then she pointed to the floor and indicated him to sit down.

Cheng Chang Sheng thought about this little girl’s previous swift movement and knew that he had no way of running away from her hands so he silently sighed and sat down.

Seeing that he did not attempt to escape as expected, Luo Luo felt very happy.

The library was completely silent, Chen Chang Sheng did not know what to say and felt very embarrassing but obviously Luo Luo did not feel so.

She sat in front of him using her hands to support her lower jaw. She looked at him attentively with a smile.

The two were very close. Chen Chang Sheng could see his own face from her bright black pupils and could see the happiness from her heart – that’s a type of extremely pure happiness. Looking at her, Chen Chang Sheng got influenced and also felt the happiness come out from the deepest part of his heart. There were no reason for this but he felt it.

But he could not just agree with her request because of happiness and because looking at every perspective this was an unreasonable request. He said seriously “ I am really just a common person. I said before too, I just chose my destined star. I did not even purify successfully. You are stronger than me, how could I be your teacher?”

Luo Luo still used her hand to support her lower jaw and looked attentively at him as if she thought he looked very pretty. No matter how long she looked, it was not enough, “Master, if you were just a common person, how could you do those things? Also, you are a good person.”

Chen Chang Sheng did not understand why being a good person was related to him not stronger than her and not successfully purified yet and asked confusedly “and then?”

“Yesterday before I fainted, I saw master holding a sword trying to protect me from the falling sky so master is a good person.”

Luo Luo’s smile suddenly had an additional different meaning. “But actually that’s not the last image I saw. The last image I saw were stars filling up the sky. They were really stars, and at that time…..Yu Tian General Xue Xing Chuan didn’t arrive yet.”

Chen Chang Sheng realized that she saw it and felt somewhat hopeless. “so what?”

“Master, if your sword can break through Net of Fog then obviously it’s not a common sword. And you, obviously, are not a common person.”

Luo Luo’s eyes looked down and fell upon the seemingly common little sword tied to his waist.

Cheng Chang Sheng looked outside and surprisingly said “Ah!”

Luo Luo followed his eyes out and felt somewhat confused. She thought what happened?

“It’s kind of late.”

Chen Chang Sheng pointed outside and said “I have to go eating first. Can we talk about it later?”

Luo Luo’s face slightly plumped up like a bun and it was very cute, but it was also like a little tiger which was still cute.

She was about to hang on to him but Chen Chang Sheng’s voice slightly changed and said “Dont hang on to me!”

Although the time they spent together was very short, Luo Luo already grasped his personality. She understood that if she pushed him too hard, it would not be a good thing. Because of this, she took back her hands unwillingly and looked at Cheng Chang Sheng who already silently walked to the exit of the library. She said “Master, just accept me please.”

On the floor, her skirt hem spread out like a flower. She sat in the center of the flower looking pathetic but very cute.

How would Chen Chang Sheng dare to look back? If he did, he would definitely soften his heart. As he walked out, he waved his hand and ran away.

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In the Hundred Blossom Street he ate a bowl of mixed rice with pickled veggies. Then he walked a while in the capital, thinking that the strange little girl should have already left, Chen Chang Sheng then returned to the Tradition Academy. After he walked into the library and took a glimpse, he finally relaxed because no one was there as he expected.

As the evening was about to arrive, thinking that he already wasted so much time today, he used his fastest speed to finish preparing. He began to calm down and meditate and got ready to absorb starlights to purify again. But before he even closed up his eyes, he saw that under the starlights a skirt was swaying. The little girl walked in.

Chen Chang Sheng said helplessly. “I already said. It’s impossible.”

Luo Luo, as if she did not hear what he said, said, “Master, I already move all the things into your bedroom. Among those little buildings only one of them had a stove. That room should be yours? Those herbs were placed in the attic. Everything else was under your bed.”

Chen Chang Sheng already noticed, the Legendary Luminous Pearl and the sword

technique already disappeared. He originally thought that the little girl took back the things. Who would expect she actually help him put the things inside the building. He did not even know how to react at all.

“I want to xiu xing.”

He felt very helpless, but really did not want to waste any more time and miss the night to absorb starlights and purify. So he could pretend as the little girl was nonexistent and tightly closed his eyes.

Suddenly, he smelled a very light fragrance coming from his right side.