After the midterms, Ji Xun left the country to represent the nation in a competition alongside the most outstanding students from across the land. He was to be away for over ten days.
For Shang Qing, this brought both pride and a strange, indescribable melancholy. Since the moment they had met, the two of them had seemingly never been apart for so long. Habit, she realized, was truly a terrifying thing.
To keep her life from feeling unsettled, Shang Qing poured all her spare energy into researching and sketching designs for her coming-of-age ceremony gown. She was currently hunched over her desk, working on her "Ode to Spring" collection. She had already finished five distinct sketches and was now working on the sixth.
Chapter 125