Standing near the city gate, he looked at the citizens being carefully checked. It seemed he couldn’t leave Ancheng recently. Their only reason for doing this was him. He couldn’t understand why Hu Yan Nan was making such a big fuss when they currently owed each other nothing.
Shan Xiaoya heard her stomach rumbling. She touched her belly, which felt empty, and a curved smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.
Jing Wang sat at a window seat on the second floor of a teahouse, holding a tea cup in deep thought. Since last night, the entire An City had been in a state of panic. Rumors spread that the General’s Mansion was searching for an important person, with posters of a handsome young man plastered everywhere. But he had recognized her at first glance – the woman who had been on his mind…
At this moment, a guard from the Wang’s mansion approached. “This subordinate greets the Wang.” Jing Wang withdrew his gaze, put down his tea cup, and looked at the newcomer with a hint of anxiety. “Have you found her?”
“Reporting to the Wang, neither the General’s Mansion’s people nor our men have found her. She should still be in An City…”
“Understood. Continue searching. Make sure to find her before General Hu Yan does.”
“Yes!”
The guard retreated. Jing Wang picked up his tea cup, gazing blankly out the window, troubled by love and losing appetite…
Suddenly, a familiar figure caught his eye – a petite woman in a gray outfit, her hair covered by a black headscarf. In An City, no man would be this small, except her…
Jing Wang put down his tea cup and stood up abruptly, his eyes never leaving her. Just as he was about to approach her with joy, he unexpectedly saw her hand quickly reach into someone’s embrace and extract a money pouch, which vanished in the blink of an eye.
What was she doing?
If not for his keen eyesight, he would never have noticed her swift theft. Jing Wang leaped out the window, coming up behind her, eager to confirm if she was the woman he had been thinking about. He impatiently reached out and tapped her shoulder, blurting out, “Stop!”
