On the second day, Li Mo had just woken up and was about to head to school when a call came through. It was undoubtedly from a higher-up, who told him that a six-month military training program was about to begin. It would involve not only members of the Ghost-Slaying Bureau, but people from three other factions as well, with the aim of training and developing their members. Mo Youqing was bent on getting revenge on his master, Li Mo, so he impersonated Li Mo and started an online romance with Zhang Nanmu, the curator of the Qinglan Library. When the farce came to light, it caused an uproar and nearly drove Lin Qingyi to confront Li Mo with a forty-meter-long blade forged from a level-160 crystal core. Mo Youqing had set out to frame his master, never imagining he would end up tripping himself instead.
Li Mo was both exasperated and amused, so he decided to go along with it. He personally offered ten level-160 crystal cores and ten Emperor-grade crystal cores as an exorbitant betrothal gift, bringing the two together on the understanding that the engagement would take effect when Mo Youqing turned twenty.
In Li Mo's eyes, the steep price of the betrothal gifts was well worth it. Zhang Nanmu was bold and decisive, much like Lin Qingyi, and never hesitated to act when the moment called for it. She was just the person to keep the unruly, troublemaking Mo Youqing in line. The engagement not only secured the Qinglan Library, with its vast store of intelligence, as a staunch ally of the Ghost-Slaying Bureau, but also found the willful young genius someone who could temper and discipline him. A ridiculous prank had turned into a bickering couple's romance. Everyone else envied Mo Youqing his good fortune, but he knew the truth: he wasn't marrying a wife and settling into a life of ease. He had dug himself a hole and brought home someone who was born to keep him in check.
