Until a shadow fell overhead, "What are you doing here?"
"Ah—" Ou Luoxin was so startled that she fell on her butt, watching as the puppy joyfully ran over to Xia Nuobai and started biting his slipper and toes.
Xia Nuobai bent over, picked up the puppy, and placed it in the crook of his arm. He looked down at her with a half-smile, "I actually came out looking for it."
Implication being, he didn't expect to find such an unexpected surprise!
Ou Luoxin was stunned for a full thirty seconds, her eyes darting around as she thought about how to smooth things over, how to explain why she was at the corner of his house in the middle of the night.
With her mind totally frozen, Ou Luoxin gritted her teeth, gave up on a last-ditch struggle, and decided to make a run for it as the best strategy. She stood up, ready to make her escape.
