on Monday.
Qiao Mei arrived at the Beast Taming Department Class 3 of the Federal Academy early in the morning, and Shang Duojin brought her some good news.
"My engagement with Wan Shishi is finally null and void! The real Wan Shishi has been taken back to the Wan family for questioning. As for the fake Wan Shishi, I heard she has been locked up. To express their apology, the Wan family has compensated my family with a lot of benefits, and I have a share of it."
Shang Duojin, all cocky and arrogant, pulled out a Star Card, held it between his right index and middle fingers, and said to Qiao Mei and Shu Qingqing, "I'm treating you to dinner this week! Where would you like to eat?"
"It might not be possible this week. I need to go to my grandfather's for two days. He has some things to teach me." Qiao Mei declined regretfully. To prove that she wasn't just making excuses, she even showed Shang Duojin her chat history with Xu Wenfeng.
Shu Qingqing also shook her head and refused, saying that she also had things to do on Saturday and Sunday.
This immediately dampened Shang Duojin's initial enthusiasm, so he could only change the subject and ask if they had filled out the form posted in the group chat regarding joining the Federation Army or the Interstellar Army.
Qiao Mei and Ao Cang had already joined the interstellar army.
As for Shu Qingqing, she had previously said she wanted to join the Federal Army, but she had never met the requirements.
With the help offered by the academy, she certainly wouldn't refuse, and told Shang Duojin that she had already filled out the application to join the federal army.
"And you? Are you planning not to go anywhere?"
Shang Duojin stroked his chin: "At first, that was indeed what I thought, but when I thought about how you all went to the army and I would be all alone, I felt a bit lonely. I thought, how about I go to the Federation army with you, you bad woman! Anyway, Sister Qiao has Cang Ao to keep her company in the interstellar army!"
His reasoning was plausible, and Shu Qingqing didn't think much of it.
Qiao Mei, however, noticed something unusual.
She didn't expose him. After agreeing to the matter, because the afternoon class required her to work with her familiars, she asked Ao Cang to create a clone of the Thunder Dragon in advance, so that she wouldn't be without a familiar to use.
Before the afternoon classes even started, Qiao Mei noticed many people casting envious glances at her.
She could understand their gazes, because currently, in the entire Beast Taming Class 3, only her familiar beast had evolved from the initial form to the intermediate form, so her teamwork with her familiar beast in class would definitely not be too bad.
Sai Qin arrived early and, seeing that Qiao Mei had released the fake Ao Cang in its Thunder Dragon form, walked up to her and asked when her familiar beast had broken through.
"If I remember correctly, just half a month ago, it was a little black dragon. How did it suddenly evolve into a thunder dragon?"
Speaking of this, Qiao Mei felt rather helpless.
When she left the world in the book, Ao Cang hadn't been in contact with the power of wishes for a long time. When she returned, he suddenly gave her almost a year's worth of power of wishes. Because he offered so much, he evolved directly.
She couldn't tell Sai Qin the truth, so she could only lie a little awkwardly: "Teacher Sai, maybe, maybe it's because of my grandfather's teachings that it was able to level up so quickly."
Xu Wenfeng was a high-ranking officer in the Federal Army back then. He was not only proficient in mecha, but also quite skilled in familiar beasts.
After hearing this, Sai Qin didn't think much of it and directly gave Qiao Mei a book on training intermediate-level familiar beasts.
"In this class, I will continue to teach other students how to train their beginner familiars. Since your familiar has already reached the intermediate level, you can take this booklet to the third year to audit their classes."
If Qiao Mei remembered correctly, Xu Heyu was also a Beast Taming specialist. It couldn't be such a coincidence that the class she was going to audit was also his, could it?
Just then, Sai Qin handed her a tag that clearly stated, "Third-year Beast Taming Department Class 1 Auditor ID Card".
Qiao Mei: "......."
She subconsciously looked up at Ao Cang and found that his eyes were lowered. She wanted to suggest that she switch classes to audit the class.
But then Sai Qin continued, "Currently, the only students who can audit the class and happen to be taking the Beast Taming course are the third-year students in the Beast Taming Department Class 1. Since you know someone there, you won't feel awkward going. Hurry up and go. Their class location is a bit far from here, and you'll definitely lose credits if you're late."
With things having come to this point, Qiao Mei had no choice but to give Ao Cang a comforting look, tell him before leaving that she would be back as soon as possible after class, and then hurriedly left.
......
The teaching building for Class 1 of the third-year Beast Taming Department was in Teaching Building CH221. When Qiao Mei arrived, the class bell had just started ringing.
Her waist-length chestnut curly hair and red eyes were very eye-catching, and people quickly recognized her.
"Isn't this Xu Heyu's ex-fiancée?"
"Isn't this Qiao Mei, the former seventh princess of the royal family? What brings her here?"
"Hey, look, she's wearing an observer's badge. Does that mean her familiar has evolved to the intermediate level?"
Ao Cang in his Thunder Dragon form could no longer wrap his arms around Qiao Mei's neck as before. Now, his puppet was wrapped around her right arm, with her long sleeves covering most of its body, making it almost invisible unless you looked closely.
Qiao Mei's arrival was quite a commotion, and Xu Heyu naturally noticed it as well.
After being troubled by those dreams, he doesn't really want to have a direct relationship with Qiao Mei now.
But he didn't want to, and his classmates who knew about their past relationship didn't think so.
Compared to Xu Heyu, they were even less familiar with Qiao Mei.
So everyone made way for Qiao Mei to sit next to Xu Heyu.
Qiao Mei didn't care where she sat, but when she found that they had reserved a seat for her next to Xu Heyu, she had no choice but to go and sit there.
At this moment, the teacher who was lecturing them also came over. She only had time to greet Xu Heyu with her eyes before opening the book that Sai Qin had given her and starting to listen to the lecture.
Xu Heyu couldn't help but notice the fragrance wafting from her.
He usually listens very attentively in class, but today he was unusually distracted.
After a class, I still didn't know what the teacher was talking about. My mind was racing, wondering whether I should take the initiative to talk to Qiao Mei.
I'll also try to find out if she has any memories of her past life.
If so, then her lifelong estrangement from him would have a reasonable explanation.
But in that case, he was destined to never be able to get close to her again, since there was a life-or-death barrier between them.
Qiao Mei took notes, but there were some parts she didn't quite understand. She glanced at Xu Heyu, intending to ask him about them.
But to my surprise, his book was spotless, without a single note.
"Xu Heyu? Don't you need to take notes in class?"
The girl's clear voice interrupted Xu Heyu's thoughts. He subconsciously looked up and his blue eyes met her red eyes.
In that glance, he seemed to see her in her previous two lives through her present self.
But no matter which life she was in, she should never look at him with such a clear and self-possessed gaze.
Instead, it should be overflowing with affection, so intense it burns his chest.
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