As Huan Meirong waited inside, outside too, there were people waiting; the four people that had been following her had sat on a table outside of a bustling restaurant located beside a fabric store that was opposite to the little herb store where she was and they weren't the only ones.
On the second floor of the same restaurant, there were now only two handsome young men sitting there, near a window with a view to the street.
Both of the handsome young men were looking at the herb store but their gazes were different; the black-robed young man deep and cold eyes were solely on a maiden with a veiled hat that sat inside, from his position he could roughly see her through the open door of the store while his companion who was clad in dark green was looking with intrigue at the whole store, he wasn't in a good position as to see more than some shelves with herbs that couldn't catch his attention through its door and windows.
The face of the man clad in green was full of expressions; he seemed to have many thoughts going through his head. Therefore, at length, he couldn't help but voice part of them out when he had made some conjectures about her, "Brother Xingtian, you have always had eyes to pick up intriguing women, I was amazed when she named that many herbs so steady without a pause despite her condition but I still don't know why are you stalking her; you had always been straightforward when it comes to recruiting people so… so…" he didn't complete his phrase. The only way he had to end it, it was a ridiculous idea and he couldn't think of anything else; he wasn't good when it came to reading the reasoning behind his two junior apprentice brothers sudden change of ways and the contrary was also a fact.
Xingtian didn't utter a word; he was also surprised, he knew nothing about it. He was just… the reason behind he doing so was… 'Because I was captivated by her,' he replied in his head. He knew it from the start, even if it was absurd and made no sense; it was like that and he couldn't deny it.
Since that day, on that fated night where he had chosen the quickest route to reach the place where he had to deal with something and had seen her dancing through the shade of trees; he already knew it.
It hadn't been her clean but charming beauty, it had been… what her dance expressed what captivated him. Her relaxed but firm pace that said she knew what she wanted despite everything, despite being blind and left almost to her luck by her family. She wasn't sad nor desperate, she was enjoying her life as though it was a new one; she was just like… him.
He knew more people in similar situations and even some that took things like both of them but she was different; he didn't know how she was different but he felt it. It was an inexplicable feeling.
Perhaps it was because he felt she had more things to hide aside from being the secret eldest daughter of the City Lord of Huan City. Who knows, he didn't know it; he only knew that since he had met her, he had passed from being someone that knew everything to someone who didn't. It was strange to go back and had that clueless sensation he had when he was a child.
"Aye, aye, don't answer me but could you at least blink. You hadn't blinked for a while now," Qinghai rolled his eyes and jested while waving his fan in front of Xingtian's face.
Xingtian whose thoughts had been disrupted closed his eyes; then he opened and glared at Qinghai from the corner of his eyes.
Qinghai recovered his fan and gave him a devilish smirk as an answer to his cold glare, making him retrieve his dagger-like eyes and relocate his sight back on the figure inside the store.
'Tsk, this guy is more nonchalant than Shandong,' he sighed with regret in his heart; making a conversation with his two junior apprentice brothers was a difficult task, 'Well, at least, it isn't impossible for me.' With that in mind, Qinghai went back to put his attention on the store to try and have a clue about what was making Xingtian keep his distance and be like this.
I already had a rough draft for this chapter but I rewrite it all and it took me more time than what I had expected \(T_T)/
Anyway, 4/5