He let go of Hou Jingshu and looked at Wu Meiying. She nodded. Then he looked at Hou Jingshu. While she had been blushing before, the alarm had made her shed all that embarrassment. She stared into his eyes and nodded as well.
Looks like we’re all on the same page.
They left Wu Meiying’s room and traveled outside, where pandemonium reigned. A bunch of people were running around. Most of them were heading toward the gates, though a few were escorting the young and those who couldn’t fight toward the dining hall. It was the only place large enough to hold so many people outside of the library, which was less defensible.
Wu Jian hailed down someone who was passing by, an older man with the same dark hair and eyes as him. “Wu Kin, what is going on? Is it the enemy?”
The man nodded. “It see
