Ning Que did not know that he had become the male protagonist in a novel and was about to face numerous challenges brought by other minor characters in the book. He might succeed continuously or fail continuously before finding out if he was the male protagonist or if someone like Long Qing was supposed to be the male protagonist and end up running around in dead-ends.
He had been thinking about an important question since he returned to Chang'an from the Wilderness. He did not dare to cultivate at the back of the mountain of the Academy if he could not solve the problem, much less to engage in battle with others.
In order to solve this question, he had made his way to Chang'an using his ID token as a visiting professor at the Imperial Center Administration in the morning of the second day, before the sun even rose. He came to the mountain path behind the old library of Academy and waited quietly.