Su Ningyan was certain he wasn't the only one who had ever broken the academy rules.
The Celestial Beast Academy was full of beasts who despised one another. He had read the book. They were all psychopaths, the lot of them.
Tu Lanyin was the only anomaly.
He didn't remember reading about her at all.
Had she appeared because he met Yan Wuhen too early?
Ningyan knelt in the center of a vast chamber accented in grey and black. Lantern light bathed the room in a muted glow, reflecting off polished stone and white fur patterns arranged like a miniature throne hall.
Four tiger-beast guards stood around him, unmoving. Two more guarded the doors.
Ningyan sighed quietly.
He already knew who they were waiting for.
He adjusted his posture, kneeling properly and keeping his gaze lowered. He avoided looking at the guards, though he could feel their sharp, curious, hostile eyes on him.
A coreless phoenix.
A first-year disciple.
Someone who had stabbed his stepbrother.
A clan heir.
