131 SECOND OPINION

"Better?" Xiao Tianyao asked Senja who stared at him. She nodded.

"Get up" Xiao Tianyao held her elbow to help her stand up. Senja moved her legs that no longer hurt to stand up by holding onto his front robe. He didn't brush Senja's hand away when she grabbed his robe, instead he was attentively helping her to steady herself.

Xiao Tianyao kept on holding her elbow and waist till she is stable to stand on her own before releasing his grips and he walks away.

Senja followed him silently, although her legs weren't hurt anymore but it took quite an effort to keep up with Xiao Tianyao's long stride making their steps out of sync.

Moreover Senja was too tired to jog after him instead she walked at her own pace. Due to remembering the way back to the Carnation Resort, she let him walk far away in front of her. Although Xiao Tianyao didn't carry her, but for him to come back and check on her was already something that Senja couldn't imagine.

However to her surprise, Xiao Tianyao actually stopped and waited for her while leaning his tall body on a nearby tree. He seem bored and impatient, but didn't make a single comment.

Senja's slow pace really challenged Xiao Tianyao's patience, but to think about what she had gone through and her sad expression, made him to swallow his annoyance. He had gotten used to her brusque schemes and fake tears, however what he saw earlier, her expression held no pretense and was on the verge of crying. She was just a girl with a helpless expression without no idea on what to do, like she has lost all her wits and guts.

He despised the delicate and manipulative Senja from years ago or that scheming and spoiled Senja this past month but he really didn't like her previous helpless expression the most. It reminded him of the first time he saw Luna.

Xiao Tianyao started to walk again when Senja had arrived in front of him, but this time he kept his pace just a step ahead of her.

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He accompany Senja up to her room door, beside Xiao Tianyao's study, the same room that she occupied earlier. When she arrived, almost all the places in the Carnation Resort had been clean up, the traces of the earlier battle no longer visible.

Senja pulled out the secret letter and gave it to Xiao Tianyao wordlessly. He looked at the secret letter that he thought was stolen for a few second before receiving it.

"I will be in the next room" Xiao Tianyao said before he closed the door and walked to his study room. He waited to receive the completed report about what had happened.

Earlier, he left the Carnation Resort because he received a report from Yang Yu who had gone to the fortress first and had been following Doctor Hong. He found that Doctor Hong wasn't at his post in the Fortress' treatment tent, but instead was in L City's District 9, trying to flee.

The moment Doctor Hong gave Xiao Tianyao diagnosis about the cause of Gu Xie's death, he called Doctor Lin right away to came back from her duty on L City's hospital to re-diagnose Gu Xie's dead body. There was no harm asking for a second opinion. However he hasn't receive the report yet when Senja told him after the interrogation with Hu Feng this morning about the poison that the intruder had Gu Xie swallowed.