Chapter 5027 — Wasting Good Things
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As it happened, just as Wei Zhao reached the entrance of the residential compound, he saw the aloof young woman coming back, carrying a large bundle of medicinal herbs—evidently for treating injuries.
So she had gone out to buy medicine. But why hadn't she gone into the city? Surely the countryside couldn't offer rare medicinal herbs that the city couldn't?
Wei Zhao puzzled over it privately, but the herbs were wrapped tight in yellow paper, and he could not tell what they were. He could hardly ask outright, so he merely nodded at the young woman as she approached—a greeting of sorts.
The tall woman glanced at him and nodded once in return, then walked straight into the compound, showing not the slightest inclination to speak.
Wei Zhao gave a helpless shrug and could only follow behind her in silence, still fiddling with his phone. Two chance encounters in one day—he had thought he might at least exchange a few words and sound her out, but the aloof young woman kept him at arm's length throughout. What was a man to do?
And so the two of them climbed the stairs in silence, one behind the other. Halfway up, though, the tall woman suddenly stopped for some reason. Wei Zhao was buried in his phone and didn't notice, and nearly ran straight into her.
She was tall to begin with, and standing a step above him as she was, had he actually collided with her, his face would have gone straight into her chest—and that would have been a fine mess indeed. Fortunately, Wei Zhao caught himself in time and stopped short, leaving less than ten centimeters between them.
At such a distance, it wasn't merely a matter of seeing her clearly—even the faint orchid scent of her body was unmistakable. Coming back to his senses, Wei Zhao felt rather awkward and quickly retreated two steps. "What is it?" he asked.
"Were you secretly photographing me? Do you believe I could kill you?" The tall woman glared at Wei Zhao viciously.
"Huh?" Wei Zhao was stunned. Following her sharp gaze, he looked down and—to his dismay—realized his phone was still set to video mode and had never been switched off. And since he had been fiddling with it the whole way up behind her, to any onlooker it must have looked exactly as though he were secretly filming the young woman.
Especially since she was wearing a skirt today that was none too long. From where he stood, his phone really could have caught a glimpse beneath her hem—no wonder she had misunderstood!
"This is..." Wei Zhao was instantly wronged beyond words and hastened to explain. If the aloof young woman concluded that he had been secretly filming her, then forget sounding her out in the future—he would be lucky if she didn't beat him senseless on the spot.
Unfortunately, she gave him no chance to explain at all, only warning him coldly, "You'd better behave yourself, or don't blame me for being unpleasant. Pervert!"
With that, the tall woman turned and walked off, leaving a deeply dejected Wei Zhao behind, smiling bitterly to himself. He had hoped to use these chance encounters to chat a little, and once they were on familiar terms, to ask about those Heaven-Realm experts. Instead, he had been mistaken for a pervert—how was he supposed to strike up a conversation now?
Still, he could hardly blame her. Who had told him to keep fiddling with his phone behind her, with the camera mode running? It would have been stranger still if she had suspected nothing at all.
He could only shake his head and smile bitterly in silence, waiting until she had gone into her room before continuing up the stairs to his own. Otherwise, if he followed too closely, the aloof young woman might again misunderstand and even attack him—and then things really would spiral out of control.
Back in his room, a rich medicinal aroma soon drifted over from across the hall—she was evidently decocting her herbs.