6 First meeting (1/2)

Beside her Zi Yi nudged her arm and spoke, ”No wonder why they're extremely popular, they act so real!”

Jiao Yu stiffly turned towards Zi Yi and didn't know if she should cry or laugh. Grabbing the hand of a confused Zi Yi, Jiao Yu starts to step backwards heading towards a door in the furthest corner.

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Zi Yi was pulled in a room by the veiled young female beside her and upon entering, her eyes were suddenly covered by a small and delicate hand. Then she heard Jiao Yu's voice beside her ear, ”Close your eyes no matter what.”

Zi Yi wondered what those words meant but then she suddenly heard two muffled voices coming inside the room.

Admittedly, Jiao Yu was worried that they will get involved with more trouble staying out. That's why, when Jiao Yu pulled Zi Yi to this room, she was not able to guess what was inside but only heard muffled voices from the other side of the door.

And that is why she entered without a care but regretfully, Jiao Yu wished that she showed a little bit of care as the first thing she saw upon entering the room was two people in a state of undress while holding each other firmly, and it seemed as though they were too caught up to their business and not paying any attention to their surroundings or perhaps, they simply didn't care.

Jiao Yu couldn't help but feel her blood rushing to her face and felt that the temperature of the room was slightly hotter.

Seeing Zi Yi's furrowing brows, she knew that Zi Yi was trying to decode what noise was that so she dragged herself and Zi Yi out of the room again before Zi Yi could decode it, closing the door with a 'bang', making sure that it would take the attention of the people inside.

When they got outside, Jiao Yu took her hand away from Zi Yi's eyes but did not let go of her arm while pulling her to another side. Maybe Jiao Yu was walking too fast or she just couldn't detect the presence of the person as she bumped with someone and almost fell from the impact, making Zi Yi who was behind her bump her head unto Jiao Yu's back.

Time seemed to slow down as black obsidian eyes stared back at Jiao Yu's honey colored eyes. In front of Jiao Yu stood a youth at his early twenties,His facial features were beautiful but had subtle gentleness. Even though he had a rich playboy appearance, he had a kind of serious air that was transcendence to his age.

From behind, she heard Zi Yi spoke, ”What is it now?”

”Nothing.” Jiao Yu uttered as her eyes unknowingly swept to that person's eye and went to the stairs, going down towards where workers from the restaurant entered and exit to and fro the lobby after apologizing to the youth she just bumped with.

After they just securely entered the place, the commotion in the lobby broke again as soldiers stormed inside. Two soldiers successfully reprimanded the man after a while of struggle and the place was cleared for the head of the soldiers to lead an investigation.

He Jiang, who was in charge of the soldiers patrolling around the city noted that the woman lying on the floor was part of the troupe and came from the Sui Empire while the man they just reprimanded was a scholar from a noble family in Zhou. From the witnesses's statements, they told him that the man had too much drink and insulted the woman by harassing her, treating her like women from a brothel, then the woman splashed water to the man angering him and the next thing that the witnesses saw was the body of the woman falling on the floor with blood oozing from her body.

Upon on his musing, his sight was blocked with a dark purple robe and when He Jiang looked up, he thought his soul would jump out of his body.

In that same lobby, there were two people in front of him, one stood stiffly and cold while the other man was just standing in a relaxed manner. The idle manextended his hand to the tea that was on top of a table near them, slowly raising the white jade teacup to his lips. After a light sip, there was a gentle and perfect smile on the corner of the lips. ”Good tea.”

Putting down the teacup, he flicked his sleeves and his eyes landed to the stunned He Jiang. ”One hoped that I have not interrupted the investigation and created more trouble for you.”

”Of.. Of course not, this lowly one would never think that Yu Xiang would be a trouble nor does Yu Xiang needs to worry about what this lowly one thinks.” He Jiang firmly cupped his hands, lowering his head as he spoke.