Chapter 1009

She had no reason to keep living at the Dongfang Family’s place; after all, it wasn’t her home.

So, Baili Xia planned to pack up her things and take the opportunity to tell Dongfang Jin today that she wanted to move back to the dormitory.

Besides, the Mu family would certainly return; if she didn’t, Grandfather would definitely come looking for her.

It was just that, under the current circumstances, if she could avoid it for a while, she would.

“Xiaxia, can we talk for a moment?” Ning Anran suddenly said as Baili Xia stood up.

Baili Xia looked down at her, a trace of helplessness in her eyes: “Is that necessary?”

Just speak, why put on such a polite act?

Baili Xia wasn’t in the best mood today, not because she wanted to lose her temper at Ning Anran, but facing Ning Anran like this, she suddenly felt very powerless.

Ning Anran didn’t speak, her eyelids lowered, who knows what she was thinking.

After a moment, she looked up again: “Let’s go for a walk in the small woods behind the mountain.”

Baili Xia had always been somewhat fearful of the woods in front of her.

An indescribable fear; she always felt that the woods hid too many publically indecent things.

Whether one day she, too, could become one of the main characters in such filthy affairs, she simply couldn’t guarantee.

Ning Anran walked quietly by her side, claiming she wanted to talk, but she didn’t start any conversation along the way.

She had changed; she used to be so chirpy, chattering ceaselessly every day.

Now, she had become much quieter, more like a lady of a noble family.

Baili Xia didn’t know if it was because she had been in contact with those noble ladies too much, but now looking at Ning Anran, she really didn’t seem much different from the young mistresses from wealthy households.

Quiet, not talkative, elegant in her demeanor, and possessed that certain quality.

Actually, Baili Xia was relieved to see that she was doing well, but that sense of close intimacy from the past was no longer to be found.

How unpredictable life is, another instance in front of her eyes.

“Go on, what do you want to talk to me about?” Baili Xia asked directly, without the energy for sentimentality.

Ning Anran was slightly taken aback before turning to look at her: “There are things, it’s just…”

“Since when did our Miss Ning Anran become so timid?

So afraid to speak her mind?”

Seeing her pretty brows knit together, Baili Xia rubbed the corner of her brow, helpless: “It’s just a joke, can’t you tell?”

Indeed, Ning Anran was a bit upset, thinking she was making fun of her.

Even though Baili Xia said it was a joke, she didn’t truly let it go.

She wasn’t any kind of lady; she was just someone with no identity, no status.

The true lady here was her, Baili Xia.

Having become the young lady of the Mu family herself, she used such words to mock others, didn’t she realize how cruel that was?

Baili Xia said nothing more, and the smile at the corner of her mouth completely disappeared.

An Ran, she had actually taken it seriously, and became serious as well.

Since when could she no longer take a joke?

It was helpless, but it was the truth.

If it had been in the past, how could such a small matter make her angry?

When they arrived at a stone bench, Baili Xia stopped walking and simply sat down on it.

Looking up at Ning Anran standing by, her expression was indescribably calm: “What is it, really?”

Ning Anran, however, looked at her, hesitated, and then said softly, “Do we really…

have to talk like this now?

When I seek you out, must it always be for some reason?”

“…” Damn!

Isn’t this the pot calling the kettle black?

Wasn’t this what she was thinking?