"Okay…but I am interested in knowing why you are on the male bathing site?" He asks, crossing his arms and narrowing his gaze as he studies a flustered Yi Hua hiding her dignity under the water.
"What?! This is- I, um…I didn't know about this being- actually I thought this is for women." She says, still covering herself with her hand and looking away, embarrassed.
"Can you please…lend me your extra clothes if you have any?" She inquires, hesitantly as her gaze wavers from the man to her surroundings, occasionally checking out if she wasn't exposed.
"Uh…here." The man says, walking ahead and placing the pair of clothes he had in his hand against the edge of the pond, he turns around, walking a few steps ahead and standing still.
Yi Hua gulps, "Why are you still there? Go away so I can change!" She says, out loud.
"Uh…I will." The man says, clearing his throat and walking towards the door but he stops when he hears some voices, widening his eyes he turns around to find Yi Hua extending her arms to grab the clothes.
Their eyes meet and Yi Hua screams, pulling the robe and covering herself, "Pervert!" She screams, grabbing the stone lying on the ground as she throws it at him, and dodging the stone he looks ahead, embarrassed.
"Are you done? Someone is coming!" He shouts back, Yi Hua widens her eyes and gulps, "Don't look back. I will change fast!" She shouts, hurriedly wearing the tops and bottom before she drapes herself with the robe, standing on the ground, "I am done." She says, ruffling her wet hair.
The man turns around, watching Yi Hua in awe as he gets lost in her beauty, blinking his eyes, the man clears his throat and looks away, "You should leave. There are people coming this way."
Yi Hua nods her head, "I will leave. Thank you for the clothes." She says, bowing her head down before she runs away, giving the man no chance for a word, he watches Yi Hua run away.
"Who is she?" He mutters to himself, tilting his head and watching the way she had disappeared off. He clears his throat again and shakes his head off of her thoughts, he turns around and walks to the pond but stops when he remembers he had no other spare clothes.
"Ah, I need to get another pair of clothes now." With that, he too makes his way out.
Yi Hua was busy running with her head hanging low, she walked out to the lobby area where there stood two people smiling and greeting the incoming customers, and she suddenly felt cornered and nervous.
'I can't get caught.' She takes in a deep breath.
She looks around and finds a hat, she grabs it putting it on, she tries to walk out but she halts when she sees the lady standing ahead watching her with a frown, she turns around and walks away, closing her eyes shut in stress, disappearing within the crowd.
"Eh! Miss!" Yi Hua screams mildly to herself when she heard that lady calling her, she escapes out from there running wherever her feet took her, she walks into another area and finds a woman lying her head against the edge with her eyes closed and body in the pond, relaxing.
She gasps, catching the woman's attention, the woman snaps her eyes open and screams seeing the inverted figure dressed as a male, "Ahh!!!" She screams and clutches her robe tightly that was draped around her chest before sitting straight with her body till her neck drowned under the pond.
"Who are you?!"She shouts, Yi Hua gulps, "Miss…haha, I just lost my way." Yi Hua apologizes, awkwardly, looking away and scratching her head, 'Uh, wait. I am also a female. Why am I acting so guilty and strange?' Yi Hua thinks to herself.
She looks up to explain but gets hit by a shoe on her face, she yelps in pain and falls down to the ground, the woman widens her eyes shocked with what she just did in reflex, bewildered she stands up, wrapping a robe around her she runs to Yi Hua.
"Ah, I am sorry! I-I…"
"It's fine, Miss." Yi Hua says, rubbing her nose that got red from the hit, she looks up and meets the woman's face so close to hers, the woman widens her eyes and gulps before distancing herself and looking away.
'Wah, she is such a beautiful woman. Might even be a goddess.' Yi Hua thinks to herself, 'Why am I not that beautiful?' She asks, scoffing inside her mind, feeling humiliated being before such a beautiful woman.
"I saw someone running this way! Maybe it's a thief!" They both hear the commotion from around, Yi Hua widens her eyes coming out of her trance before she looks at the woman, "I just got lost here. I need to find my way out, beautiful miss." Yi Hua says, smiling at the woman who blushes, sitting still on her knees.
"You…are a thief?" She questions, scared while Yi Hua shakes her head no, "No! I am not! I am just a traveler and I had my things stolen. I was searching for that thief and fell into the pond-"
"You seem to be lying." The woman says, growing suspiciously, "No! I- see my hair is also wet. And people outside are searching for someone. I asked them for help. I need to go look for that thief and get my things back!" Yi Hua says, standing up on her feet and looking around.
"I am sorry for startling you." Yi Hua says, flashing her smile which had the woman awestruck, she waves her hand and runs away in the opposite direction, looking for a way out.
The woman blushes profusely and cups her face, blinking her eyes as she looks around, she flinches when she watches a few males and females running in, "Ahhh!! Why are people just running in!?" She shouts, covering herself.
"My Lady, we apologize." Everyone dashes out, leaving the woman alone to her thoughts as she catches her breath.
"I regret coming here. Li zie! Li zie where are you?!" She screams, suddenly a girl dressed as a maid runs in, "Yes, My lady." She greets the woman with her head hung low, scared and confused.
"You said I will feel good here, right?! This is such a bad place! Let's go!" The woman shouts, grabbing her clothes and glaring at the maid.
Yi Hua gets greeted by the same walls of bamboo, "I can climb this." She says, pulling on her sleeves and climbing up the wall as she checks around, making sure she walks through unnoticed.