Dan Wulan knitted her brows, carefully recalling everything that had happened earlier at Wan Qingzhai.
Did I, perhaps, bump into a shop assistant? And then?
Suddenly, her eyes widened. A complex look filled them, and, breathing heavily, she uttered, word by word,
"Xiao Ruoching?"
Could it be with her?
Now, two issues lay before Dan Wulan.
Return to Mo City to retrieve my gauze carp, or disregard all this and head straight back to the Sword Sect...
Dan Wulan hesitated slightly.
Xiao Ruoching probably doesn't know that these items are mine. If I go back, Senior Brother will likely find out my...
—Although I bought them intending to wear them for him to see.
Dan Wulan bit her red lips lightly. Her breathing hitched several times as she fiercely suppressed the desire to turn back, deciding to act as if nothing had happened.
She quietly re-fastened the bellyband inside her clothes that she had undone on a whim, then turned and left.
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