Gu Luoxin heard the soft scrape of the door sliding open, followed by quiet footsteps that stopped just right on the edge of his vision.
"Father," Ares greeted in a formal and respectful tone. No hint of intimacy or warmth could be detected in his voice. He sounded so distant, as if the person he was talking to was his superior rather than his blood-related father.
And Master Grinu's tone mirrored his— cold and apathetic, tinged with a barely concealed anger. "Have you forgotten what day it is tomorrow?"
"I haven't," Ares responded quietly with his gaze lowered.
Alas, his lukewarm demeanor seemed to stoke the embers of rage in Master Grinu into a blazing wildfire, for his stern voice boomed across the open hallway in the very next second,
"Then what are you doing now?!"
