"Listen here you blabber mouth, I don't know what made your confidence soar high like that when you didn't even realise you were poisoned the whole time and had to be dragged back to the barracks by yours truly, but this woman here is trying to tell you stop fretting." Tao Xiulan said in a very monotoned voice, but it was clear that she was throwing shade at the person she was talking to.
"This is just an entrance exam. The real battle is not even here and you are already hiding your tail in between your legs?" She scoffed as she looked at him angrily.
Mao Huan, obviously flustered at what Tao Xiulan said went red as he remembered his condition a few days ago.
After they had exited the forest, for some unknown reason only to him, he was poisoned. He vehemently denied being poisoned in the forest, as this would mean he lost to Tao Xiulan in the game they were playing.
Almost everyone else was sure that he got pricked by the poison shrubs that were scattered around the area, including his group as they saw him recklessly walk through the shrubs and got cut, but he simply ignored it.
He claimed it was just a simple shrub and nothing dangerous.
Words too early to be spilled.
When they told him about it, an ostrich was born.
"Tao Xiulan!" Mao Huan looked at her like she broke his favourite toy and was completely heart broken. "How could you say that so easily? I thought we made a deal to not talk about that!" He half whispered as he took a look around them to see if anyone else could have heard them.
Aside from a tiny figure seated in front of them who seemingly had no interest in their conversation, there wasn't anyone else who wasn't busy and doing nothing.
Oh, how wrong his assumptions were.
Zhu Ling at this time was deeply immersed in their conversation that she hadn't notice the examination nearly commencing.
"Keep your voice down, loud mouth. You just have to do your best here. While you're at it, keep your mouth shut. You seem more intimidating when you don't talk" Tao Xiulan belted it out quickly as soon as she saw that the people began to quiet down and there were some taking seats on the podium as well.
Mao Huan looked hurt but he cleared his throat and placed his eyes right at the center of the stadium "For being my friend since we were kids, I'll kindly let this slide but just this once. You would have been fried meat if I actually took action."
"You're dreaming parrot man" She said quietly as she too looked towards the center of the stage where there was a man standing.
"Parrot man!?" Mao Huan turned to look at her with his eyes full of bewilderment
Tao Xiulan looked back at him and motioned him to keep himself quiet and brought her eyes back to the front.
As she noticed that the two behind her had put on their manners and decided to be good children watching the show, Zhu Ling decided to do the same.
Right now, she had a small reason as to why she would watch this exam for some time.
She wondered how these two people would perform.
When she too looked at the stage, she saw on the center the man who hosted the event and that he was beginning to give a call out.
"Welcome everybody! To the Silverdew Academy's Entrance Examination!"