Jun took slow, quiet steps closer inside the banquet hall, his brown eyes staring at only the two figures dancing in front of him. He stood on one side with the blanket of darkness sheltering him while Jin and Ai shone under the light.
He said nothing. He thought nothing.
He simply kept his gaze fixed at them, his expression impossible to decipher.
From his right end, he heard whispers.
"That woman…I saw her outside the mansion's gate," Qin Wen spoke in disbelief. "That one dancing with Liu Jin."
"Really? Who is she?" Her friend asked.
"I don't know! I don't even understand how she is dancing with someone like Liu Jin," the fury and jealousy in her voice was unmistakable. "Just look at her. Wearing such plain clothes and having no class…I treated her as a maid outside."