87 In Hard Though (1/2)

Gan Tian Chi thought for a while before he said in a gentle voice ”We are not all good, yet we are not entirely evil. We merely do what we wish to our whims.” As he finished speaking, everything was silent as he continued to walk on.

His strange words made Xue'er lost for a while. Believing he was hinting at something else. Trying to clear something up, but she could not understand.

[Could it be he does not approve of my actions?] She silently worried as she chased after him.

They soon made it to the most bustling parts of the town, where they blended in completely with the different shades of red. Gan Tian Chi's head looked left and right at all the stalls and activities that were going on at the same time. He seemed like a young child that was easily amused at everything that passed by.

Xue'er was also amazed by the excitement on his face. Now that she thought about it, she too had the same expression when she discovered something worthy of her attention.

”Gan Tian Chi, is there anything exciting?” She looked towards him and asked.

”Indeed, indeed…” He nodded and turned his head towards the lanterns made with colorful rice paper, with a candle inside giving the entire lantern a glow filled with life. ”Xue'er, do you want one?” Gan Tian Chi asked.

”Okay.” She answered. There was no harm.

Gan Tian Chi paid with a few coins, and gave her a lantern that was in the shape of a little fish that looked like it was swimming, with its tail swaying left and right due to the mechanism, along with the vibrant yellow, red and green with a few streaks of gold made the lantern very lifelike. She had to admit that the lantern was quite beautiful, all be it, fragile. In the end, it was still made of rice paper that could rot away with time, or broken with a small pebble.

”Thank you.” Xue'er said to Gan Tian Chi. It was a word said, and she had meant it with all her heart.

”No need to thank me.” He said as he looked at the other nicknacks all around, twirling a pinwheel round and round playfully with his fingers, and taking a deep breath of the air. Giving a slight cough, when he realized he inhaled a breath of smoke. Its taste was difficult to explain, but it was definitely toxic.

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”There was a fire.” She said straight away, as soon as she heard him cough, though she did not go into deep detail. Nothing could ever be hidden from him anyway.

”Hm… Arsenic.” He muttered with a curious expression that soon disappeared, dragging Xue'er into a less crowded area, seeming to have forgotten about the fire she had told him about.

He gave a smile as he found a space for them to sit. Against the walls of a store that had been closed up with a sign stating that it would reopen on the day after the soup dumpling festival. Gan Tian Chi straightened out his crimson robes and his hair tie, looking at Xue'er with a smiling face.

”How has your assignment been going?” He questioned. Of course, he was referring to the arrangement he had given her. The task to have herself behave like a child.

”I work at an embroidery shop, and I became friends with a girl by the name of Xiao Ya.” She answered honestly.