"Huh?"
Yao Wan's voice rose slightly; she had not expected Xun'er to say that.
"...Judging by your reaction, it really seems like you've never gone through it."
Seeing the astonishment and surprise written all over that frost-thawed face, Xun'er actually found it a little amusing, teasing her as she spoke.
"Tch... That's not exactly something worth being proud of, is it?"
Xun'er's reaction left Yao Wan rather speechless. In her view, that was indeed the case.
Just being pestered for this short while had already given her a splitting headache. If they had been even more shameless, she figured she would not have been able to suppress her killing intent.
She really had no idea how anyone else managed to endure it.
"I'm not talking about the act of being pestered by others itself, but the experience. Looking at you, I just feel like you're still very unfamiliar with this kind of situation. Could it be that the younger generation of the Yao Clan had no thoughts about you back then at all?"
Xun'er shook her head, merely curious. She was not saying that being pestered by others was interesting in itself; it was just that after being pestered enough, one would gain some experience in handling it.
"Thoughts? It's not like I could ask them... But judging from the stir my marriage recruitment caused back then, perhaps they had some thoughts, more or less."
Yao Wan briefly recalled the matter of that marriage recruitment, then shook her head. She had never cared much about people who had nothing to do with her. If she had to say, the only person in the entire Yao Clan she had a slight impression of in that regard was Yao Ling's elder brother.
"...I remember now. Yao Tian did have some interest in