Aurora raised a hand to cover her face. A dignified, mature woman like her was now utterly swallowed by shyness and embarrassment.
Just thinking that someone had watched those ten years of abandon—not only her face, but even her body seemed to be on fire.
Flaming red, all over.
Seeing her like this, Sui Shen Xiyue could not help beaming. "Aurora, what is wrong with you? You're already so grown up, not some little girl whose heart has just begun to stir. Why are you still so coy over something like this? As a woman, you need to be more free and easy. Don't let such things bind you. Love and desire are, in themselves, the most open and honorable pursuits in this world."
"Yes..." That was easy to say, but when Aurora looked up and saw the ambiguous look in her eyes, then remembered that she had even witnessed her flusteredly putting a mask on that boy before mounting up and galloping wildly... That feeling... she simply could not go on living.
"Still shy? You weren't like this back then. You squeezed that child dry again and again..."
"Stop talking, please." Aurora had always been a dignified woman. Back then, controlled by that Starsea Giant, she had lost some of herself, but at the very least, she had been more clear-headed than Li Tianming.
"Fine, I won't say it, I won't." Sui Shen Xiyue gently embraced her, pity gradually surfacing in her eyes. She said softly, "I just feel sorry for you."
"Sorry for what?" Aurora asked.
"Of course I feel sorry for you. You clearly know who he is, yet after he came back, you still couldn't get past that hurdle in your heart. You pretended not to know anything in front of him. Every day, I watch