The messenger soldier scratched his head.
He had only said Doctor Zhen's sister was here to make a delivery, not that she was here specifically to see him. It was the doctor himself who'd bolted without hearing him out.
Of course, he only dared to think such things. After all, Doctor Zhen was notoriously difficult and petty.
He pointed at Tian Jiao beside him. "Your sister... isn't that her?"
Zhen Jili looked at Tian Jiao again.
A smile had just begun to form on Tian Jiao's lips when Zhen Jili rolled his eyes heavenward.
"Your sister's the one who looks like that. My sister is much more beautiful than her!"
Tian Jiao was fuming.
'A grown man being so sarcastic was one thing, but to say she wasn't pretty?'
"Oh, so it wasn't her," the messenger soldier said, scratching his head again. "She said she was from Dafeng Village and here to deliver dehydrated vegetables, so we all just assumed..."
