She had never had any good memory of black leather gloves as it could only remind her of Choi Yeon Jun. Gripping to her hand, she forced herself to snap back from her fear.

"Thank you." She thanked the man who saved her. Her voice was a little shaken, but her eyes halted every feeling one-sidedly. The man who saved her didn't say a lot, he stared at her in silence and murmured before leaving.

"You ought to be careful."

Xiao Yun looked at the man's figure from behind. He wasn't speaking in a normal Chinese language, his tone was thick in an accent. A weird accent that foreigners often used.

Zhuang Huan Wu pulled his phone. "I will call the teacher, we have to report the bag that you lost and are you alright? You looked a little pale before."

"N- No. I'm alright. Let's wait for the other first before while we call for the teacher." She suggested.

"Okay." Zhuang Huan Wu informed his homeroom teacher through his phone and waited for the rest of the group members to round up.

Not long from where they were, the thief was still running with Xiao Yun's bag on his possession. From behind, a young man ran to catch up with him. With his nimble body, the young man kept one jumping over the obstacle and was able to corner the thief on a narrow alley created by the shops around.

"W- Why are you chasing me?!" The man shouted, hugging to Xiao Yun's bag with all his might.

Choi Kang So sighed to take off his cap and hood from his head. His eyes stayed on Xiao Yun's bag that was on the man's hands. Since before Xiao Yun's bus left the hotel, Choi Kang So had been following them until they arrive at the West Lake. He thought that everything will end up well without anyone interfering, but out of nowhere, a thief came to snatch Xiao Yun's bag and ruin her happy school trip.

"Let's do this fast." Choi Kang So examined the man's expression and waved his hand. "You have two choices. Give me the bag or fight m-"

Before Choi Kang So finished, the thief threw over the bag to his face and ran. He clicked his tongue, reaching out his feet to trip the thief and locked him down bellow him.

"Damn it! Fuck you!" The thief shouted. He tried to stand up but Choi Kang So pulled the reign on him and kept on stepping over his back so he wouldn't be able to try and make a move.

"Let me finish my words first, can't you? That's a foul move you know!" He sat on the thief, picking the things that flew out of Xiao Yun's bag and grumbled out. "Tell me, why did you steal nuna's bag? Judging by your reply, I can consider letting you off."

The thief who had been jumbling out bad words out of his mouth suddenly stopped and twisted her neck with his might to see Choi Kang So's face. "Really? Are you sure?"

"Mn! I'm sure!"

The thief thought for a moment, should he tell him the truth or lies?

"You're taking too much time and I don't have any." Choi Kang So spread his five fingers folding one by the time he counted down. "Five- four- three- tw-"

"T- The bag looked expansive and the wallet also looked like someone from a very well off family!" The thief instantly regretted his words. He was stuck by the time that the young man gave and had no other choice than to blurt out the truth.

"Oh- so you're not Hyung's1 henchmen. That's great."

Hearing the relieved sigh between the young man's lips, the thief saw a ray of hope. "T- Then, you will let me go?"

"No. I did say that I will considerate it, right?" Choi Kang So sang out his answer to pull his hand from the bag and chopped the back of the man's neck to bring him out from his light.

He stood from the thief's back and looked at the unconscious man to rub his chin. "What should I do know? Giving the bag directly to Nuna would be bad, but I can't exactly place it here-"

He looked around to see something slipped out from Xiao Yun's bag, a small note, pen, and hairbrush. Looking at the pen and paper, and idea flickered to his mind.

First of all, the thief didn't do a good thing about stealing Xiao Yun's bag, but he made a chance for Choi Kang So to leave some message to Xiao Yun this way. But...-

Choi Kang So sat back at the thief as though it was a couch from his house and reflected on what he should write.

Something that isn't too wordy, but could prove that it's him and could warn her from Choi Yeon Jun, and something others can't read than Xiao Yun.

Choi Kang So began to write something in the notebook and placed it back on Xiao Yun's bag to zipped it off. He looked down on the thief, walking a few steps away from the man and left the bag there. When he was in the light, he mustered his voice and shouted on top of his lungs.

"The thief is here!!! Oh No!!! The Thief is here!!! Ah!!!!!!"

The security heard the voice of a man screaming 'Thief' and ran to the source of the voice. When Choi Kang So spotted the security, he ran away from the scene to watch the security to take away the bag and the thief in the custody from afar before going back to his work on shadowing Xiao Yun.

Xiao Yun's group sat at the lounge of the Hotel with a disappointed face. Not only did Xiao Yun had to lose her bag, but she was also nearly shoved to the deep lake.

Xue Xiu Yong had a worried look on his face. "Did you see the thief's face?"

Xiao Yun shook her head. "No, he was covered in a sunglass and face mask. I couldn't see anything."

"I couldn't too." Zhuang Huan Wu replied from the side.

The three people let out the same sigh, Xiao Yun turned her face to Zhuang Huan Wu as she remembered the little boy that was also shoved by the thief. "The boy before, was he alright?"

"You fool!" Xue Xiu Yong chided, "Don't you spare yourself a time to worry about yourself?!" Xue Xiu Yong was in a great bad mood for not being able to protect Xiao Yun, now he would make sure to glue himself to her for sure so she wouldn't be harmed by anyone again.

Xiao Yun's rabbit ears slumped down like a child scolded by her parents.

Seeing Xiao Yun's face turned battered from the scoldings that Xue Xiu Yong gave, Zhuang Huan Wu replied gently. "His mother came to pick him, he was alright. You saved him." he trailed, fixing his eyes on her, "You also saved me before and today you saved another person, it isn't something that anyone would do in your place, you're a really amazing person." a ripple of admiration cleared his eyes.

Xue Xiu Yong crooked his brow. Zhuang Huan Wu clearly said that he only felt admiration for Xiao Yun but the way he praised her sound too gentle to his ears.

"It's nothing to be praised." When Xiao Yun saw someone in danger, she couldn't stop herself to save them.

"Ahem." Xue Xiu Yong cleared his throat and cut through the delicate air that Zhuang Huan Wu was giving.

Su She In looked timidly at Xiao Yun in guilt. She felt that the incident that ruined the whole trip of the day was her fault for stopping there to the washroom.

"I'm sorry, seniors I shouldn't have excuse myself-" Su She In expected scoldings to come from Xue Xiu Yong like how he scolded Xiao Yun and felt a hand patting her head. She looked up to see a compassionate smile from Xiao Yun. "It isn't your fault. If we are searching for faults here, it's the thief's fault."

Su She In who had felt a little burdened with guilt had a face cleansed from it. As she thought, Xiao Yun was different from what Ji Gu Na said and she has to talk again with Ji Gu Na to stop her from proceeding with her plan.

Xiao Yun leaned to the couch, propping her head on her arm. Like the rest of her friend, she's also greatly upset by the fact that her bag was stolen from her. Especially the bracelets and keychain were also in the bag.

'I wanted to give him the keychain...' she drew out a heavy breath. Xue Xiu Yong felt her breath brushing against his palm as he was seated beside her and flinched.

He cleared his throat again, placing his hand over to his laps and sneakily glance at Xiao Yun's face. Looking closer between his eyelids, he spotted a graze and traces of blood on her arm.

"Do anyone have a bandaid?" Xue Xiu Yong asked and saw Su She In taking out a bandaid from her bag. "I do, senior Xue."

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