They entered and locked the door from within. Ling Xiaochen would observe from the window to see any suspicious movement while An Zhengnan would guard the door. They had to do it secretly so that no one would know of Furball's existence.
The room was new as the old one had been destroyed along with the whole inn so this was Ouyang Xueqing's first time meeting Ren Yupei again after the incident when she almost died by his hands. She approached him slowly, her eyes trailing along his face.
He looked as if he was in a deep slumber. His face was peaceful and his breathing even. There was no sign of the craziness that she had witnessed that day. Her heart still hammered in jittery at the mention of that day because she felt that the image of Ren Yupei, her gentle older brother, had been somehow rewritten since then.
