Bai Cao went near the door and opens it. She enters the room and closes the door.

She went towards the bookshelf and starts searching for the book "The art of war." But she could not find it.

She searched for it for fifteen minutes and finally, she found it. She pulls the book. As she did that, a small portion of that row turned and the locker appeared. Bai Cao puts the password (2001) and it opened. Bai Cao was really happy to see it open. There was a small paper bag and a box inside. She took it out.

"I finally found a proof," she said. 

I should go now. We will see what is in there together.

Bai Cao closes the door of the locker and it turned itself.

She was going out with the proof, a smile on her face and tears in her eyes. As she came out, she stopped. There was surprise in her eyes but she kept a cold look on her face

"Yin Xiu!" said Bai Cao with a cold look on her face.

"Hi, Bai Cao!" said Yin Xiu.

"Why are you here?" asked Bai Cao.

"I should be the one asking you that, Bai Cao," said Yin Xiu.

"I don't think it's necessary to answer your question." Saying that Bai Cao started walking. 

Yin Xiu held Bai Cao by her arm and asked, "What is in your hands?"

Bai Cao smirked and turned her face towards Yin Xiu. "What do you think?" She said while removing Yin Xiu's hand.

Yin Xiu laughed seeing Bai Cao's expression. "So, you found proof against Feng Yun Hall," she said sarcastically.

Bai Cao folds her hand and said, "Yes, I did find proof against Feng Yun Hall."

"But I don't think it's strong enough to ruin Chen Zhou."

"If it is so, then why did he kill my father when he found this proof?"

"He was not the one who killed your father. His uncle killed your father. These proofs are against him not against Chen Zhou."

"These proofs are not against Chen Zhou nor his uncle. It's against Feng Yun Hall."

"But I am sure that it's still not strong enough to defeat Chen Zhou."

"Oh really? Well, you don't have to worry about it." Saying that Bai Cao started walking.

"I will help you find a strong proof, Bai Cao," said Yin Xiu.

Bai Cao stopped. Both of them turned towards each other.

"But for that, you will have to die," said Yin Xiu.

Bai Cao was about to say something but before she could Yin Xiu said, "Okay, I know that life and giving your parents justice is really important. So, I will give you a second option. You can't tell Drillmaster that you love him, and you have to make him think that you still love Ruo Bai. I guess, Drillmaster must not be more important than your life and giving justice to your parents," said Yin Xiu.

Bai Cao had a very serious look on her face. It felt like she is thinking about what Yin Xiu said. She sighs and lowered her head. Suddenly she started laughing while saying, "You are right, Yin Xiu. I can't give my life as it's really important."

"I know," said Yin Xiu and started laughing.

"But the second option you gave... is more than enough for me to say..." Bai Cao paused. She stopped laughing and raised her head looking straight into Yin Xiu's eyes. "No," she said with a fierce look.

Yin Xiu was shocked. "What did you say? No?" asked Yin Xiu.

"Yes. I said No," Bai Cao replied.

"So, I guess giving your parents justice is not that important for you, or maybe your life is not that important."

"Who said? Giving my parents justice is really important for me. I will do everything to give them justice, but that doesn't mean that Senior Ting Hao is not important to me. If giving my parents and master justice is my life goal, then Senior Ting Hao is my life. As you said, life and the life goal are really important. I can't give up on any of them. And why would I not tell Senior Ting Hao that I love him when I do love him? Why would I make him think that I still love Senior Brother Ruo Bai? Senior Ting Hao is not just my love but my strength... my life... my everything. The day I met him, I knew that I have to stay away from him because I felt the strongest connection with him. Do you think that I will leave him so easily? If he is with me, only then I can do anything. And even if I'll make him think that I love Senior Brother Ruo Bai, he won't be yours nor he will stop loving me because he doesn't need me to love me and I will tell him that I love him and I will keep loving him till death unconditionally as he does. I am not going to give up on him, understand this as soon as you can, it's good for you."

Yin Xiu said nothing and went away from there. Bai Cao smiled and went from there too.

Then suddenly, a girl came out of a room. She was no one else but Guo Guo.

So, Yin Xiu fell in love with Ting Hao too. Well, that's not something about which I should be surprised but why does Bai Cao wanna ruin Feng Yun Hall? What did Feng Yun Hall do to her parents? Who were her parents? Who is Bai Cao actually?

On the other side, everyone was standing outside the offices. They all were looking worried. Chang An was continuously calling someone.

"Did she pick up?" asked Ting Hao.

"No, she didn't," replied Chang An.

"Where can Bai Cao go?" said Ting Yi.

Where did Bai Cao go? Did something happen to get? No, nothing can happen to her. She is very strong. She can protect herself. But where did she go? 

Ting Hao was thinking all this while walking left and right. He turned his face to his left and saw Bai Cao coming. As he saw her coming, he ran towards her and hugged her.

"Thank God! You are ok, Bai Cao," said Ting Hao.

"What would have happened to me?" asked Bai Cao.

"Nothing. I will never let anything happen to you," said Ting Hao.

Both of them kept looking at each other straight into their eyes.

"Bai Cao, why did you go without telling us?" asked Chang An.

"I am really sorry, brother," Bai Cao apologized.

"Where did you go, Bai Cao, and what's in your hand?" asked Ting Yi.

"This is the proof against Feng Yun Hall which my dad found for which, he was killed," said Bai Cao.

"Where did you find this?" asked Chang An.

"Actually, I went to Chen Zhou's office and there..." before Bai Cao could complete, she was interrupted.

"Wait. You went to Chen Zhou's office!?" said Ting Hao.

Bai Cao lowered down her face and said, "Yeah."

Ting Hao laughed angrily and said, "Why did you..." before Ting Hao could even finish, the bell rang. "I am not going to leave this topic. We are talking about this tonight, Bai Cao," he said and left from there and everyone followed him.

In the night

They all were at home. Ting Hao was sitting in front of Bai Cao and the proof Bai Cao found was kept on the table. Bai Cao kept looking down. She didn't even dare to look at Ting Hao and Ting Hao was looking at her.

"Why did you go to Chen Zhou's office?" asked Ting Hao

"To bring this," answered Bai Cao.

"How did you get to know that it was kept there?" asked Ting Hao.

Bai Cao took the paper out which she found inside Qu Xiang Nan's diary and handed it over to Ting Hao. "I got to know about it from this," she said.

Ting Hao unfolds the paper and starts reading it. After reading it, he looks at Bai Cao with a cold look on his face. 

Chang An takes the paper from Ting Hao's hand and starts reading it with Ting Yi.

"How did you get to know the date?" asked Ting Hao.

"I asked sister Li Na," Bai Cao answered.

"When?" asked Ting Hao.

"Yesterday night," answered Bai Cao.

Ting Hao hits on his thighs and stood up. He started walking here and there.

"If you got to know about it yesterday night, then why didn't you tell us?" asked Chang An.

"Because I thought that it could have been dangerous," said Bai Cao.

"Exactly! It could have been really dangerous. It was dangerous, Bai Cao. " yelled Ting Hao.

"Brother!" said Ting Yi.

"What!" Ting Hao growled.

Everyone got chills by hearing Ting Hao yelling as they never saw Ting Hao so angry but Chang An stayed still. Ting Hao looked at everyone's faces and takes a deep breath.

"Bai Cao, it was really dangerous. What if someone would have spotted you there?" he said calmly.

"I don't care if someone would have spotted me or not. I just didn't want you guys to be in any sort of danger," she said.

"So, don't you think that we want the same for you, Bai Cao?" yelled Ting Hao again.

Bai Cao raised her head and said, "Why are you yelling at me? I just went to Chen Zhou's office. Nothing happened to me."

"You think I am angry because you went to his office?! I am not angry because of that. I am angry because you hid something from us again. You should have at least told us what you have planned... but you didn't," said Ting Hao.

Bai Cao stood up. "Yes, I didn't because I knew that if any danger would have gonna come near me, you would have taken it on yourself just to save me. You wouldn't have even thought once before doing that and I didn't want that," she said while looking straight into Ting Hao's eyes.

"Fine," said Ting Hao and started walking away from there.

"Where are you going now, Ting Hao?" asked Chang An.

"Is there any use of me staying here? To be honest, there is no use for us here. Bai Cao can handle everything by herself. She doesn't need us. So, I am going to my room to sleep." said Ting Hao and went towards his room. So, did Bai Cao.

"Don't you two wanna eat something?" asked Chang An.

"No. I am not hungry." said both of them at the same time.

They opened the doors of their rooms and went inside. But before shutting the door, they looked at each other for a minute and slams the door.

Looking at them, Chang An starts laughing.

"Chang An, how could you laugh like this at this situation?" said Ting Yi but Chang An didn't listen. He kept laughing. He got up and went towards the kitchen.

"Are you guys hungry?" asked Chang An.

Everyone was looking at Chang An with wide eyes.

"Guys, leave him. We should think about how to make their fight end,"

"I think we should not get between them. What we should do is not leave anything to eat," said Chang An while filling a vessel with water.

"What do you mean, Chang An?" asked Ting Yi.

"What's running in your mind?" asked Yi Feng.

"Nothing is running in my mind," Chang An replied.

"Ok, fine. But why are saying that we should not leave anything to eat and how is it going to help us in ending their fight?" asked Ting Yi.

Chang An puts the vessel filled with water on the stove and smiled.

After some time, all four of them were eating noodles.

"I still don't think this is going to work," said Ting Yi.

"What if it does work?" said Chang An

Ting Yi stood up and said, "If it does, then I will do whatever you'll say, Chang An."

Chang An looked at Ting Yi and suddenly he lowered down his face and smiled. He stood up while smiling and said, "Are you sure, Ting Yi?"

Ting Yi was a little confused and nervous by looking at Chang An's smile but she didn't show it and said, "Yes. I am very sure and if they are still not talking to each other in the morning, you will have to do whatever I'll ask you to do."

Chang An went near Ting Yi and leaned towards her a little and said, "Sure. I have no problem." Chang An smiled mysteriously and went towards his room. Ting Yi turned around and smiled nervously. "I am done eating. I go to my room now," she said and went to her room.

Both Xiao Ying and Yi Feng giggled.

After a couple of hours, both Bai Cao and Ting Hao were lying on their bed in their respective rooms. Both of them were awake. They were thinking about each other the whole time.

Then suddenly, a cold breeze hits their face. Both of them got up from their beds and went towards the window.

Why did he yell at me? But he didn't yell for no reason... still, he shouldn't have yelled at me like that. But I yelled at him too. I shouldn't have done that. Should I say sorry to him? Bai Cao thought while looking at the stars.

Why is she like this? Why does she hide things from us? I understand that she doesn't want us to be hurt... but I love her a lot and I can do nothing about it neither I want to do anything about it. I am happy loving her. It's just that I can't see her hurt. Why does she not understand this? Still, I shouldn't have yelled at her. Should I say sorry to her?  Ting Hao thought while looking at the stars.

Suddenly, their stomach started making sounds. Both of them were hungry.

"Ah! I am really hungry! That means he must be hungry too," said Bai Cao to herself.

"God! I am damn hungry. If I am hungry, then she must be hungry too," said Ting Hao to himself.

Both of them went towards the door.

What if he must be sleeping? Bai Cao asked herself.

What if she must be sleeping? Ting Hao asked himself.

Both of them stood near the door holding the handle. They took a deep breath and opened the door at the same time with their eyes closed. As they opened their eyes, they saw each other and kept looking at each other for a minute. 

Both of them went towards each other and said at the same time, "Are you hungry?"

Hearing each other asking the same question, they said nothing and looked at each other for a couple of seconds and said, "I am hungry. What about you?"

Both of them lowered down and smiled. They raised their heads and looked at each other as if they are still angry with each other. "There must be something left to eat," they said together again.

"Let's go," said Ting Hao and they went towards the kitchen.

"I will go check in the fridge if there is something left," said Bai Cao and started looking for something to eat in the fridge but found nothing.

"Is there something to eat?" asked Ting Hao.

"No. There is nothing," Bai Cao replied.

"Did they eat everything?! Why didn't they leave some for us?" said Ting Hao irritatedly.

"It's not their fault. It was us who said that we are not hungry," said Bai Cao.

"Yeah. You are right. Leave it. I will just make ramen," said Ting Hao and went towards a shelf to take a ramen packet out.

"Then I will start boiling the water," said Bai Cao and started boiling water.

After a few minutes, the water was boiled. Bai Cao was pouring the water into the bowl. Ting Hao was standing there looking at Bai Cao. After she finished pouring the water, there was some water left in the vessel. Bai Cao was kept the vessel back on the stove but she didn't keep it properly and because of that, the vessel was going to fall on her feet. Ting Hao noticed that. He caught that vessel from the hot side and kept the vessel back on the stove but some boiling water fell on his hand.

"Ouch!" said Ting Hao.

"Senior Ting Hao!" said Bai Cao worryingly.

She held Ting Hao's hand, she takes him towards the sink and turned on the water.

"What were you doing, Senior Ting Hao?" At least, you should have held the vessel from its handle," said Bai Cao.

"I didn't think anything."

"Why?"

"Because I just knew that if I wouldn't have held that, then it would have fallen on your feet, which I didn't want." Ting Hao said while looking at his hand.

"So, you burned your own hand just save me?!" She said while looking at Ting Hao. Her eyes were filled with pain.

Ting Hao raised his head and as he looked into Bai Cao's eyes, he could say nothing. He lowered down his face to turn off the water and went towards bowls of ramen.

"Let's eat or else it'll get cold," said Ting Hao while picking up the bowls. He was going towards the table.

"Wasn't I right, Senior Ting Hao? Why do you think I should tell you what I am planning when I know it's going to be dangerous? Why should I tell you?" said Bai Cao in a loud voice.

Ting Hao said nothing and sat on a chair.

Bai Cao went towards him and said, "Why are you not saying anything, Senior Ting Hao? Why should I tell you anything? Why don't you think about yourself once? You don't think anything before doing something if I am going to get hurt" said Bai Cao.

Ting Hao puts his chopsticks down and said, "Yes, I don't think anything and I won't think anything before doing anything if you are going to get hurt."

"Why?" asked Bai Cao.

Ting Hao got up and held Bai Cao from her arms. "Because I love you... a lot. Whether you accept it or not... whether you liked it or not... I do love you and I will keep loving you forever, Bai Cao... and I don't want to see my loved ones hurt... I can't see you hurt, Bai Cao," he said while looking straight into Bai Cao's eyes.

"So, don't you think I want the same for you," said Bai Cao looking straight into Ting Hao's eyes. Her eyes were filled with love and compassion and Ting Hao could see that.

What's that? What am I seeing in her eyes? After looking into her eyes, why do I feel like I got what I wanted?

He leaves Bai Cao's arms and starts looking here and there.

"Let's eat and sleep," Ting Hao said and sat on the chair, so did Bai Cao.

Both of them started eating and said nothing.

Senior Ting Hao, please stop hurting yourself. I can't see you hurt... because... I love you the most.

After some time, they finished eating. Ting Hao was going towards his room when suddenly, Bai Cao said, "I am sorry, Senior Ting Hao, for yelling at you." Ting Hao turned towards Bai Cao.

"I am sorry too, Bai Cao. I shouldn't have talked to you so badly."

"I shouldn't have yelled at you either but I just didn't want you to be hurt especially not because of protecting me."

"Bai Cao, protecting you is the responsibility that your master gave me before dying. He said that I need to protect you and even if he wouldn't have said that, I would have protected you."

"I know."

Both of them smiled and looked at each other.

"Well, do you know what's in this paper bag?" asked Ting Hao while pointing at the paper bag.

"No, I don't know what's in it. But it's something for which Feng Yun Hall killed my parents."

"We'll see what's in it tomorrow with everyone."

"Yeah. I want the same. So, I will keep it in my room."

"Ok. Let's go and sleep then."

"Yeah."

Both of them went towards their respective rooms. They were about to open the door but they stopped and turned towards each other.

"Good night!" said both of them at the same time and went to their rooms.

In the morning

Ting Hao and Bai Cao were preparing breakfast while talking to each other happily.

Everyone was happy seeing them when suddenly, Chang An came near Ting Yi and sat beside her.

"I knew that they will feel hungry and they will have to come out of their rooms. Because they think about each other a lot, they will ask each other if they are hungry or they will come out of the room at the same time. That means, leaving no food for them was the right decision. Wasn't it, Ting Yi?" said Chang An in a low voice.

"Yeah. Your plan did work," said Ting Yi.

"So, get ready tonight, Ting Yi, because I have won the bet and you will have to do whatever I'll ask. You remember the bet, right?"

"Yeah," said Ting Yi nervously.

"Good. So, be ready," Chang An said and smiled.

"Breakfast is ready," said Bai Cao while keeping the food on the table.

Both Ting Hao and Bai Cao sat next to each other and they all started eating their breakfast.

After some time, they finished their breakfast and it was almost time to reach Feng Yun Hall.

"Let's go in our car today. We are already very late," said Chang An.

"I think the same," said Ting Hao.

They all brought their bags from their rooms, sat in the car, and went towards Feng Yun Hall.

Soon they reached Feng Yun Hall. They were going inside when suddenly, Bai Cao bumped into someone. It was no one else but Yin Xiu.

"Hey. Good morning everyone!" said Yin Xiu.

"What good morning? Seeing your face the whole good morning turned into a bad morning," said Yi Feng.

"Absolutely right, Senior Yi Feng," said Xiao Ying.

"Well, I don't care about that but I never noticed that Bai Cao and Chang An looked so similar," said Yin Xiu.

"Isn't it obvious? Both of them are brother and sister. They will obviously have some similarity in their looks," said Ting Yi.

"Well, how are you guys planning to ruin Feng Yun Hall?" asked Yin Xiu.

"Why should we tell you? So that you can tell Chen Zhou?" asked Chang An. 

"Fine. Don't tell me what you all are planning. But what it is I am sure that you guys aren't going to be successful in ruining Feng Yun Hall," said Yin Xiu.

"Well, you will see if we will be successful in ruining Feng Yun Hall or not," said Ting Hao

"Yeah. And you don't have to worry about it at all. We can handle it. And you will surely not get what you want. It will be better if you understand this now," said Bai Cao.

"Let's go, guys," said Chang An and they all went to the practice hall.

Yin Xiu too went to the practice hall and at that time, a girl came out from behind the wall. It was no one else but Guo Guo again. She smiled mysteriously and then she went from there.

Soon it was lunchtime. The bell rang and everyone went towards the cafeteria. As they reached the cafeteria, they saw Guo Guo sitting where they used to sit every day. They said nothing to her and sat in another place but Guo Guo kept looking at one person. It was not Ting Hao. It was Chang An.

After some time, Chang An finished his lunch and got up with his plate. "Guys, I am going to the washroom," he said and went into the washroom.

As he entered the washroom suddenly, the bell rang. All the Feng Yun Hall students got up from their places including Yin Xiu and went towards the practice hall.

Ting Hao, Bai Cao, Ting Yi, Yi Feng, and Xiao Ying were waiting for Chang An to come back. Guo Guo was still eating her lunch.

Chang An quickly came out of the washroom.

"Let's go, guys," said Chang An.

Then they all came from the cafeteria and went towards the practice hall.

They were really close to the practice hall when suddenly, Chang An started checking all his pockets continuously as if he is finding something and Ting Yi noticed it.

"What happened, Chang An?" she asked.

"I guess, I left my phone in the washroom. I will quickly go and grab it," he said.

"Ok. I'll come along then."

"No, you guys go, I will be there in no time."

"Okay."

Then Chang An ran back towards the cafeteria at high speed and he reached the cafeteria in no time as he was running. He entered the cafeteria, then he opened the door of the washroom and as he opened the door, he saw his phone kept on next to the washbasin. He went inside and grabbed his phone. As he turned back to go out, he saw Guo Guo standing and the door was shut.

"Hi, Chang An!" said Guo Guo.

"Get out of my way. I need to go," said Chang An.

"Is this a new way to say Hi?" said Guo Guo.

"No. But I don't want to waste my energy to say Hi to you, neither I want to waste a Hi on you," said Chang An.

"Well, you didn't tell me that Bai Cao is your sister."

Chang An was shocked hearing that. "How did you get to know that?"

"Does it really matter?"

"No, but I need to go."

"Why didn't you tell me that you found your sister? How could you hide such a big thing from a person really close to you?"

"Excuse me! You were close to me but not anymore. Everything changed the day you ran away from your marriage. Plus, you are not trustworthy."

"Just because I cheated on Ting Hao doesn't mean that I am not trustworthy."

"You just cheated Ting Hao!? Really, Guo Guo? You just didn't cheat on him but you broke him and he is not the only one whom you broke. I don't think I need to remind you what you did."

"Yeah, you don't need to remind me anything but you can't change the fact that I was very, very, very close to you and you still have that soft corner for me in your heart."

Chang An was fuming with anger after hearing that. He grabbed Guo Guo by her arm and said, "Who said I have a soft corner for you? I have no corner for girls like you and I don't even wanna change anything. You were really very close to me but you changed everything that day. And what did you get by doing that? On one side, there is a guy whom you want again but can he never be yours and on the other, there is another guy whom you don't want. Both of them hate you a lot. By cheating on others, you only got hatred not only from them whom you cheated on but also from others. And what do you want? Ting Hao? He can never be yours because he is madly in love with Bai Cao, my sister. He can never love you again. Now move."

Chang An pushed Guo Guo aside and opened the door. As he opened the door, he saw Ting Yi and everyone entering the cafeteria. 

Ting Yi quickly went towards him and asked, "Did you find your phone?"

"Yeah," Chang An answered. "But what are you all doing here?"

"Actually..... "

FLASHBACK

Chang An ran back towards the cafeteria at high speed. At that very moment, Ting Hao turned back.

"Where is Chang An going?" he asked.

"He actually left his phone in the washroom. So, he went there to grab it," Ting Yi answered.

"Even I left the car keys there. He should have told me before going back. It's ok. I'll go there too," said Ting Hao.

"We should all go back there then," said Bai Cao.

"Yeah," said Ting Yi.

"Okay," said Ting Hao.

All of them walked towards the cafeteria.

FLASHBACK ENDED

"So, we decided to come together," said Ting Yi.

"That's so sweet!" said Guo Guo while coming out.

Everyone was shocked to see both Chang An and Guo Guo together in the same washroom, especially Ting Yi.

Ting Yi turned her gaze towards Chang An. Her eyes were filled with lots of questions and fear.

Why were they in the same washroom together?

"Ting Yi," said Chang An.

TO BE CONTINUED