Xie Jue carried the water Lan Ningzhen had prepared behind the screen to wash up. Afterward, he changed into a clean set of clothes. Lan Ningzhen was quite considerate; she had found him a new outfit from this season for physicians. The fabric was coarse and heavy but clean. Xie Jue also washed his inner garments and hung them to dry behind the screen. While he was washing, Lan Ningzhen had gone out and hadn't returned by the time he finished. Xie Jue secretly thought that this brazenly flirtatious girl, who constantly teased him, might actually know how to feel shy and had deliberately avoided him.
