The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

The group set off from Chunjian Lake, flying close to the lakeside cottage. In the distance, they saw mothers drinking tea in the courtyard, smiling and waving at them. Everything was exactly the same as it had been five years ago.

Sylvia jumped off the flying broom and threw herself into Moran's arms: "Mommy, I missed you so much!"

"Um...me too." Moran gently patted her daughter's back. Although she could understand her daughter's longing for her, she really couldn't say from the bottom of her heart that she missed her daughter too, since she could see her daughter every day!

She changed the subject, asking, "Did you have fun last night?"

"So happy!" Sylvia began to talk non-stop about the fun she had at the campfire market.

Moran listened quietly, occasionally responding with a word or two, a smile always playing on her lips.

As she was speaking, Sylvia suddenly stopped, her gaze falling on Moran's ear.

There was a small amethyst earring there, it looked very familiar, no, it looked extremely familiar!

Her voice suddenly became a little strange, "Mom, this earring of yours..."

"Hmm?" Moran thought to herself, "So you finally noticed?"

“How come you all wear the same earrings as the Dean?” Sylvia paused, her gaze sweeping over Vasita, Lilith, and Sylph’s ears, then changed her words: “How come you all wear the same earrings as the Dean?”

Her voice grew slower and slower, and her expression became increasingly incredulous.

Over the years, she had noticed that although the deans would change into different styles of clothes and outfits, they always wore the same style of earrings, only the colors of the gemstones in the earrings were different, and they were divided into four colors: red, green, purple and black.

They had never seen the same earrings in the card shop before.

The dean who wore earrings of the same color had a more similar personality and habits. The dean with the amethyst earrings gave her the strongest sense of familiarity. She had never known where this inexplicable sense of familiarity came from before, but now she suddenly understood.

Beside them, Tessa, Dorella, and Evelyn also stopped talking and all turned their attention to their mother's ear.

The air suddenly became quiet.

Moran, Vasita, Sylph, and Lilith exchanged a smile and said in unison, "You finally figured it out!"

Sylvia and the others were dumbfounded.

Five years of confusion, five years of speculation, five years of inexplicable "illusions"—all of these have been answered at this moment.

“So…” Tessa’s voice changed, “These past five years… those deans… were you?!”

“To be precise,” Vasita replied with a smile, “it’s us and our clones!”

Dorella opened her mouth, struggling to find her voice: "You've been lying to us for five years?"

“We didn’t lie,” Lilith said innocently. “We just didn’t say it.”

Dorella: "If you didn't say that, you're lying!"

Lilith: "But you didn't ask." Evelyn: "We asked many times in our letters, and every time you said you didn't know the new headmaster!"

“Did we say ‘we don’t know’?” Sylph tilted her head. “We said ‘we don’t know’, we don’t know who the new dean is, because that is ‘us’.”

Sylvia: "..."

Tessa was already crouching on the ground, her hands covering her head, completely overwhelmed by the shock of what she was seeing.

Dorella covered her face, her shoulders shaking, it was hard to tell whether she was crying or laughing.

Evelyn stared at her mother, her expression indescribably complex.

“So…” Sylvia took a deep breath, trying to calm herself down, “In these five years, every time we wrote to Mother using the Golden Bird, the Golden Bird never even flew out of the academy?”

"of course."

“Every time we complain that exams are too hard or survival games are too unfair, you guys…”

"I'm watching."

Moran's tone was nonchalant, but the smile on her lips grew deeper and deeper.

Sylvia stared at her for a full ten seconds, then suddenly burst into laughter, laughing so hard that tears almost streamed down her face.

"You...you really are..."

"What really happened?" Moran leaned closer, a mischievous glint in her eyes.

Sylvia shook her head, reached out, and hugged her mother tightly.

"That's...wonderful."

Her mother was always by her side.

She has the utmost respect and admiration for the dean who gave her significant guidance and help in her life, and who is also her mother!

Beside her, Tessa jumped up from the ground and buried her head in Vasita's arms.

Dorella lunged at Lilith, while Evelyn slowly walked to Sylph's side and gently took her arm.

In the distance, the surface of Chunjian Lake shimmered, and a few water birds flew by, leaving behind a trail of ripples.

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