67 Did she…

Soon, a white dress with pale blue patterns entered An Bing Qing's field of vision, making her dark pupils contract a few millimetres.

'Indeed, it is her, Mo Yan Yan', she thought as her feet prepared to move.

"Big brother Wang Shu, why haven't you... answered Yan Yan?" Now, just a step from Wang Shu, the pristine voice of Mo Yan Yan rang again, making a stop when her beautiful twinkling cold eyes caught sight of a pure white skirt with a pair of jade-like hands standing in front of Wang Shu but it was a brief one as her cold dark eyes only swept pass there, landing an instant later on his perfect side profile; it was obvious to her that it was a woman who was bothering Wang Shu so she completely disregarded her.

Feeling the person by his side now, Wang Shu drifted his gaze from An Bing Qing, turning his head to his left side and finally answering when he saw Mo Yan Yan's icy but inquiring eyes, "Yan Yan was far away".

His response was simple yet implied quite the things.

Things that Mo Yan Yan soon came to understand, her icy eyes flickered a little as she took notice of her misconduct, replying with a reserved slight bow, "My bad, Yan Yan apologises". There were many people around as all the contestants that lasted the full week inside the Forbidden Bamboo Forest had appeared within the arena, it was her wrong having spoken loud as she stood apart from him at quite the distance and even if they were to be alone, it would have been still wrong. And even though she was ashamed inside, she didn't fault herself at all; this kind of slips from her part happened from time to time whenever Wang Shu was near her.

Wang Shu didn't say anything in return and just gave her a glance and a mild smile before turning his gaze towards where An Bing Qing was but he just found an empty spot; she wasn't there anymore.

Unconsciously, he looked for her figure through the shade of congregated people; thankfully, they were minding their own businesses and were in their own groups so it wasn't difficult for him to find her but he was only able to see her small back with her fluttering white robes and swaying long dark hair half-tied by a long white ribbon going away in a swift manner.

Mo Yan Yan, having heard no reply, raised her sight just to find Wang Shu not looking at her anymore. She followed his line of sight and she too spotted An Bing Qing's back.

'That figure is… the girl from before…' She had recognized that back and swaying white robes; they belonged to the girl Wang Shu had smiled at the hall of the Ancient Inn and she had also met her on the stairs but yet again, she didn't get a good look of her.

With sprouted grievances, she turned her face to see him and he was still looking in that direction! She was about to open her pressed cherry lips to speak but someone else was a step ahead; she heard a loud male voice in the distance, "Wang Shu! Why are you dilly-dallying here?"

"…"

Even though both heard the voice, Mo Yan Yan was the first in turning her head towards the voice origin while Wang Shu took his time; he first gave to the far away white silhouette a last glance before turning his body to face the one who had called him without giving a reply; it was the nonsense talk of Li Hao Shan, after all.

"Oh, no wonder you are here. You are not dilly-dallying alone; you have the beautiful company of Mo Family's Eldest Miss", Li Hao Shan playfully said when he stopped before Wang Shu and saw Mo Yan Yan beside him; he had just seen her when he was close enough to Wang Shu.

Wang Shu didn't reply again as he wasn't fond of following such babbling; he only wore his always placid expression, letting him talk as much as he wanted.

Though Wang Shu was tolerant in his own way, Mo Yan Yan wasn't; she wasn´t fond of this young master Li as she found him pretentious and discourteous. He will say whatever it came to his mind and do whatever he wanted without caring about anything but the worst was that Wang Shu didn't seem to mind it and was close to him. Before, she had been reminded of her conduct by Wang Shu but he had never made any remarks about Li Hao Shan rude mannerisms.

However, what she didn't know was that Wang Shu reminded her because he knew she cared while Li Hao Shan no. Of course, that wasn't the principal reason but his neat education where it was better to be quiet along with his preference of ignoring annoying and troublesome ways.

"But what Li Family´s Young Master, Li Hao Shan, is saying, Big brother Wang Shu and Yan Yan were only interchanging some pointers", Mo Yan Yan said with a serious and cold tone but Li Hao Shan still had a playful light in his eyes and before he could say anything, she promptly added with a courtesy, "Yan Yan thanks big brother Wang Shu, Yan Yan must retire now". And then, she turned around to go back to her team after giving Li Hao Shan a slight courtesy too.

"Tsk, is my charm that big that I always scare her away?" Li Hao Shan jokingly said after Mo Yan Yan was far away.

Wang Shu didn't reply but was sighing in his heart; if someone else were to hear me, they will think he was serious.

"Anyway, letting the jokes aside, I just come to ask you…" He adopted a serious poise and got closer to him, lowering his voice to one that only Wang Shu could hear, "Are you feeling all right? You don't look so good".

Wang Shu looked deeply at him before finally saying, "I'm all right".

"You sure? As someone who knows you pretty well, I can see that you look worse than the previous times. You have said that is getting better but I can tell that that is…"

"It is nothing to be worried about", Wang Shu cut his words as he looked at him with deep eyes.

"If you say so... then, I leave. I have conveyed my worry and there's no more for me to say; it's not like I can help you either. Even so, you see how good friend I am", he said as he nodded to himself with smugness printed on his face.

Wang Shu almost rolled his eyes; this guy was unbelievable as ever. He didn't reply to his nonsense and just turned around with a flap of his sleeves, saying, "See you later, then".

Li Hao Shan did roll his eyes as Wang Shu only answered to his first sentence, flapping his sleeves too before turning back, 'Oh, right! I forgot to make fun of him with what I see before. Tsk, anyway, I will see if I can take it out later', he shrugged his shoulder as he walked back to his team that was opposite Wang Shu's.

As Wang Shu walked towards his Family's team, team he had already spotted long ago, he was reminded of something as he contemplated that the true closest people to him could still tell his state despite how much he endure it to keep himself as always, '-wait, are you…'

'Did she… notice it?' He halted his steps with this sudden thought.

'That can't be', unconsciously, he turned his head around to look towards the direction An Bing Qing had taken and as though he didn't have enough doubts, he met An Bing Qing's inky eyes tens of meters away in the distance.