Early in the morning, Jiang Shu was woken up by a continuous knocking at the door.
He opened his eyes, sat up, then closed them again, freezing in place as if in deep meditation.
After a full five minutes, he slowly came to, got out of bed, and groped his way to open the door.
"Teacher, you're back!" It was Su Xiaoou outside the door; she was the only one who would knock like that. She poked her head in to look around, then walked straight in. "Where have you been recently? How did you just disappear all of a sudden?"
"I went traveling," Jiang Shu turned to close the door behind him. He scratched his belly and walked into the bathroom to start his morning routine.
"Traveling?" Su Xiaoou was shocked by such an answer. "What's there to enjoy traveling alone? Or was there a woman with you? But even if you were traveling, you didn't need to vanish into thin air, did you? Could it be a woman we can't know about? A forbidden love like with an older sister or something?"
