"There you are, I thought you had gone into town with Huisang," Mingjue says to you with an unimpressed raised eyebrow.

"I was going to, but then he'd already sped off, saying something along the lines of 'a new fan'," you explain, not caring that you were throwing Nie Huisang under the bus, he deserved it for leaving you behind.

"That boy," Mingjue sighs exasperated.