Luo Chuan could not have been more pleased that Aurora had volunteered to take responsibility for the matter of the elf girl.
As a Guardian, given her status, she was indeed an excellent choice to tell Anno the truth.
Luo Chuan decided to ask Yao Ziyan for her opinion after returning.
With the main matters settled, Luo Chuan prepared to say goodbye. Before that, however, there was one more crucial thing he needed to do.
"Give me your hand," Luo Chuan said.
Aurora: "?"
"Wouldn't that... be inappropriate?"
So said the newly awakened Guardian, though she still hesitantly extended her hand and placed it in Luo Chuan's.
Slender and fair, soft as boneless jade.
"I think you may have misunderstood something," Luo Chuan clarified.
When he had first met Aurora, she had given people the feeling of a big sister next door. Her face always wore an approachable smile, making her exactly the sort of person one had longed to meet as a child.
And who would not want to encounter a gentle, beautiful big sister?
Now, seeing the Guardian's hesitant and faintly bashful appearance, Luo Chuan inexplicably felt a trace of guilt.
"I was only joking."
Aurora laughed softly. The blush of embarrassment, like ripples spreading across a lake, soon melted away.
Luo Chuan suddenly felt that Aurora's smile was no longer as pure as it had been moments ago.
Like a scheming person—unless she revealed her true thoughts, one could never know what was going through her mind.
Had this always been her nature?
Or had the pollution and her long slumber changed her temperament as well?
Luo Chuan was more inclined toward the latter possibility.
Gentle, beautiful, smiling big sisters were perfect. That fantasy absolutely could not be shattered.
"Boss?"
Noticing that Luo Chuan seemed lost in