Back in the instructor’s quarters, Liulan initially intended to wash the quilt and bedsheets he had been using for weeks and pack them away neatly for Xu Jiangxing. But when he recalled how Xu had broken his promise—tricking him into teaching him internal energy only to disappear afterward—his anger flared, and he couldn't bring himself to move.
Forget it, he thought. Let it be dirty. I'll let him clean it himself; consider it a punishment.
Liulan collapsed onto the sofa for quite a while, but eventually, resigning himself to the task, he stood up and threw the bedding into the washing machine.
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