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Her fist collided with his face with a sickening crunch. The red haze that had taken over her vision receded and now she only felt a strange level of guilt watching Jin ZiXuan hold his cheek. There was a huge red mark starting to cover his entire left side of his face. An ugly man in gold stepped forward and moved towards her as if he was going to hit her. Before he could a blanket of white stepped in front of her.
“Go back.” Lan Zhan spoke his voice like ice.
“Jin ZiXun get away from her.” She hears Jin ZiXuan speak and she is startled by the sincerity in his tone. Is he really standing up for her? After she just hit him?
“But she hit you!” The ugly Jin speaks and she sees the Jin heir shake his head. He is staring at her with something odd in his eyes that she doesn’t recognize.
“She did no such thing.” He tells his friend? Is the ugly Jin related to him really, that ugly thing?
“Cousin I watched her!” He cries and yes somehow the ugly thing is related to him how sad for the Jin family and odd. Jin ZiXuan is much better looking than him.
“Really your cousins?” She asks.
“Yes! You servant, how dare you hit my cousin!” The ugly Jin screams and she laughs.
“I seriously cannot believe that you are related to the peacock. Seriously! At least the peacock is good to look at when he runs his mouth.” She sighs out and two things happen at once. Lan Zhan looks at her with a set jaw and Jin ZiXuan blushes. He blushes of all things. Oh and the Jin cousin starts to scream but she isn’t paying attention to that she is more intrigued by the fact that Lan Zhan is now glaring holes into the peacock’s head. Well she wasn’t going to stop him. She didn’t like the peacock she wasn’t his keeper.
“She didn’t touch me. Leave it alone lets go.” The Jin heir speaks and she looks at him curiously. His eyes have still not left her form and she doesn’t understand what he is planning. Is he not going to get her in trouble? Certainly she still will be in trouble. Lan Zhan is here and he will never let her get away with something like this. She stares back at the red faced peacock curiously. Why was he looking at her like that?
“Whats going on here?” Grandmaster shouts in a voice too loud for the cloud recesses, and she wonders when he got here, but she isn’t going to say anything.
“Lady Wei hit Jin ZiXuan!” A voice cries and she curses.
“No! No she didn’t hit me. No one hit me I fell. I fell. Everything is fine.” Jin ZiXuan speaks and she feels her brow furrow farther. What is his game what is he playing at? She hears the grandmaster sigh and look to Lan Zhan.
“Wangji what happened?”
“Jin ZiXuan says Wei Ying did not hit him.” Lan Zhan speaks even though its totally a lie. Well not a lie she guesses he did really say that for some odd reason that she is sure is going to come back to haunt her. Why is Jin ZiXuan being so nice to her and Lan Zhan? Why is Lan Zhan protecting her? How can he not be raving mad right now? Didn’t she break like fifty of his rules in the past minute?
“Hmph! Disperse!” The grandmaster huffs out and turns to leave. Many of the cultivators scurry off but Jin ZiXuan just stands around there staring at her getting burned with Lan Zhan’s eyes as he does so. Really why isn’t he leaving.
“Peacock I know I’m pretty but you don’t have to stare.” She sighs out annoyed and she thinks she sees the Jin flush more. Really? What the hell is going on here? Jin ZiXuan hates her even more than Jiang Cheng and thinks shes uglier than Yanli which she is by the way but still she doesn’t understand why he isn’t contradicing her instead he looks reprimanded and apologizes. He apologizes of all things.
“I apologize Lady Wei.” He speaks and then Jin ZiXuan scurries off the ugly Jin trailing after him until all that is left there are her and Lan Zhan.
“Lan Zhan you didn’t have to lie for me.” She tells him and he looks at her his eyes far kinder than any other part of him.
“I did not lie. He said you did not hit him.” Lan Zhan speaks and she smiles at him.
“Ahhh Lan Zhan never change.” She breathes out leaning her head on his shoulder. She expects him to move away like he always does and so she does not fall when he does so. He leaves walking quicker than she expected of him and she sighs. How annoying that he always leaves just when she is getting comfortable.