NoGift

Chapter 141: shopping

AT THE open area of a cafe located just beside the plaza, a tall young man was leisurely drinking tea. He picked the cup on the table, his slender white fingers almost blended with the porcelain tea cup. He slowly drank the tea inside. His movements was elegant. It's the kind of innate elegance that not many people could copy. Unless you were naturally born with it. Despite the indifferent atmosphere surrounding him, passers-by and customers alike couldn't help but stare at him.

What they didn't know was that this seemingly handsome teenager was actually a young lady in disguise.

Argent ignored the eyes that fell on her. She continued to stare at the Holy Temple standing tall at the distance. She already managed to plant one of the device yesterday. But she needed to plant three more of the same device - each of which should be at the four corners of the Holy Temple. She couldn't do it all at the same time because she would only look suspicious. Especially since she's doing all this during the middle of the day. She didn't think of doing it at night because she knew that would be riskier.

She put down the tea cup back on the table. Tomorrow night was the date of the dinner party that her sister and Clay would attend. Their purpose, of course, was to get an invitation to the auction from that Bishop Ernst. Argent thought of replacing Clay but she immediately refuted the idea. Although Clay was wearing a mask, the both of them still had different builds, not to mention, different hair colors. That young priest would certainly notice the difference.

Besides, Argent had confidence in her sister. She knew that Aurum would definitely do great whether she came with her or not.

Currently, Aurum was shopping with Clay in a high-end clothing store. The two were going to buy clothes for the guy because he didn't have clothes appropriate for a dinner party. Since they're going to post as nobles, Clay couldn't go there all shabby looking. Argent didn't want to go shopping with them, so she decided to just wait here at this cafe until they're done. She could pass time here and at the same time observe the surrounding of the Holy Temple. Maybe while she's here, she could think of other ways to set up her device.

"Excuse me, Sir," said a girl's voice in front of her.

Argent looked up and saw a girl wearing a waitress' uniform and holding a tea pot in her hand. "Yes?"

The girl suddenly blushed for no reason. "Do you want another serving of tea?"

By the waitress' question, she just noticed that the tea she's drinking was almost gone. She looked up again at the waitress. "Sure."

Being looked at by this handsome customer, the waitress blushed once again. She carefully poured tea on his tea cup and then shyly walked away.

Looking at the waitress back, Argent couldn't help but be slightly confused. The waitress' blushing face meant that she's shy. But what was she being shy about though? Because of the waitress' appearance, Argent suddenly remembered someone. Lei Feng whose ears always turned red whenever he was embarrassed.

Before leaving Xing, she remembered Lei Feng asking her if he could call her. She agreed. But it's been three weeks now and she still hadn't received a single call. He's probably busy, he's a general after all. Or maybe he had already forgotten about her. Thinking that it might be the latter, she felt a sudden squeeshy feeling inside her chest.

Argent frowned and just chose to ignore it.

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Clay walked out of the dressing room and Aurum immediately laughed. He was now wearing a frilly shirt paired with a bright red trousers. It was so not in line with the elegant white mask covering the upper half of his face. That's why it was even more funny.

This was the third dress that Aurum forced Clay to try, each one was more ridiculous than the other. This was the only form of revenge Aurum could think of - so she could at least release some of her frustrations these past few days. Who told this guy to confuse her? And now she even had to shop clothes for him? She hadn't even done that for her brother. It's only right for her to have some fun.

Clay stared at Aurum who's laughing so happily and just sighed helplessly. He already noticed her low mood earlier when Argent left them. If this could lift her mood, then he didn't mind indulging her. She probably didn't want to choose clothes for him. Which he couldn't really blame on her. If he could, he would rather choose clothes for himself. But sadly, he didn't really know what clothes an aristocrat should wear to a dinner party. So he really needed help from someone.

Clay couldn't really expect any help from Argent. Even if he knelt in front of Argent and asked him to help him chose clothes, that indifferent guy would probably just kick him. So he'd rather have the temperemental sister help him. He didn't mind being laughed at by her. That's definitely better than being ignored.

"Well, at least one of us is happy," he said.

"It's only right for you to make me happy. After all, I'm the one buying," Aurum said with her particular proud tone.

"I'm going to pay you and your brother back."

"Don't bother. We don't lack money. Besides, didn't my brother said that he would sponsor you and your cause? Just think of this as an early investment," Aurum said. "Or are you the type of guy whose pride couldn't handle having a girl spend money on him?"

"That's not pride. That's simply being conceited. So no, I'm not the type of guy who couldn't handle something like this," Clay said with a grin on his face.

Besides, he knew that Aurum was not insulting him by doing this. So he had no problems accepting clothes bought by her. He experienced too much set backs in his life to even be bothered by something like this.

Aurum stared at the grin that crossed Clay's lips and she just had a sudden impulse to remove the mask on his face. She clenched her fist and immediately extinguished that impulse. In turn, she no longer played around and seriously chose clothes for Clay.

She picked a pair of black suits and pants as well as a white inner shirt. She gave it to Clay. "Try this."

Clay silently accepted the clothes and went back to the dressing room.

"The young miss and the young master have a very good relationship," commented by the sales lady assisting them. She was standing on the side so she saw the interaction between the two. "Are the two perhaps in a special relationship?"

Aurum's face heated up because of that question. But she immediately stopped whatever feeling that started to rise inside her. She looked coldly at the sales lady. "I'm not here to gossip with you, so stop."

The sales lady suddenly trembled. How could this girl be so scary? "Yes, my apologies, miss."

Then the dressing room opened and Aurum immediately forgot her annoyance. Clay, with the black suits and with the addition of the white silk mask on his face, looked like a true nobleman. Even with a rather rough temperament, it didn't detract from his charm. Instead, it just only added to it. One couldn't help but want to remove the mask on his face to see what's hidden behind. Now Aurum could agree that clothes do make a man.

"How do I look?" Clay asked.

Aurum raised one of her brows. "Are you fishing for compliments?"

Clay grinned. "I look good then."

Aurum snorted then turned to the sales lady. "We'll take this set of clothes."

After buying the clothes, the two left the clothing shop. They planned to go immediately to the cafe where Argent was waiting when they suddenly heard a cry in an alley that they were just about to pass by. They turned on the direction of the alley and saw a man holding a knife to a little boy.

"You're a devil! You should die!" the man shouted and raised the knife he was holding as if to stab the boy.

Before Clay could think, his body already moved inside the alley where the man and the boy were.