Rustle, rustle...
Rain pattered outside the window, and the distant, hollow beat of drums could still be heard from the Bell and Drum Tower.
Xie Jinhuan leaned back in the Bathing Tub, washing himself as he recalled his first visit here last year, when he had shamelessly insisted on coming inside. The Iceberg Heroine who had once blocked the doorway without yielding an inch now sat facing him, carefully washing away the dust of Purple Emblem Mountain. After fully venting the wildfire she had bottled up for over a month, her eyes had turned icy again, and she frowned at him.
Splash~
Xie Jinhuan found it rather amusing. He moved over to help scrub his back.
"Still unhappy?"
Nangong Ye's shoulders drew in slightly. Only after discovering that this damned brat was not getting up to anything did he muster a little authority.
"I'm not unhappy. Go home early once you're done washing. I'll settle today's score with the Demoness. You'd better stay out of it, or I'll deal with you too." Xie Jinhuan felt Sister Bu had suffered an undeserved calamity, but when Tuotuo schemed against Sister Bu, wasn't he the one who benefited? He merely made a token attempt to persuade him. "Sister Bu only asked me to keep you company alone because you'd been at home for so long..."
"And this is how you keep me company? What decent man keeps a Confidante company by doing absolutely everything to them..."
"I only did it because you liked..."
"Who liked it?!"
Nangong Ye flushed scarlet, but he was afraid that playing with fire would lead to another endless round. After that protest, he pushed Xie Jinhuan's shoulder.
"Go back first. If I go home with you, won't they all know what I went off to do...?"
Xie Jinhuan