Zheng Qing knew the mentor would leave.
Yet he didn't expect the day to come so suddenly.
At the beginning of May, on Zheng Qing's birthday, he had dreamt of the mentor once— to be accurate, that day he only heard the mentor's voice and saw the Yellow Flowered Cat.
The Yellow Flowered Cat said that day, the mentor was in a faraway place, and would be getting further away from them, possibly soon unable to even hear them speaking.
Zheng Qing originally thought this 'soon' was judged by Big Wizards or even Legendary Wizards' time perspectives. Because in the eyes of those high-level wizards, a year for ordinary wizards might just be akin to a day for them.
Therefore, although he felt a bit reluctant, a bit sad, and a bit anxious, he still held onto some thoughts— what if the 'true departure' mentioned by the mentor was in a few years, or even ten, twenty years later?
But now this wishful thinking has been shattered.
