48 MISUNDERSTANDING

"Huh..." she was quite at a surprise to see his limited stock of clothes. Maybe it wasn't his perennial home or so, given the state of his very few clothes, overly neat bedroom as though no one had slept there for months. Moving her eyes away from his fabrics hung in metal hangers, her eyes caught a glimpse of a shimmering object in the corner of the floor board of the cupboard. Her hand instinctively reached out to grab it, it was almost as though it was calling out to her.

It was an oddly peculiar case, lined with diamonds or jewels as it appeared to be, it did seem personal. But the mysticism about what could be inside it that could be linked to Xuan Wu made Yue brim with eagerness to know further about that box. Her hand moved futher into the darker spot of the cupboard to get a hold of the expensive looking box.