-"Another you clearly edited that passage. Are you sure you want to argue with yourself here?"
Zhuri did not. It was too embarrassing.
She plucked the little figure, who was still sitting on her head eating a carrot, off her head, tossed her into her pocket, and patted it. The little figure squeaked under the pats, and the elf gave a brief answer: "Romanticism. Courage."
"Romanticism." "Courage."
Two such unfamiliar words.
Yu Xunge sat cross-legged on the room's balcony. Tulan was already fast asleep inside, but she could not sleep. Those two Personality Tags kept running through her mind.
She was not narcissistic. If it had been those two words alone, she would not have connected them to herself, but the Zhuri Sprite had also brought back something Huang Jin had said.
-"Perhaps she wants to see who can go further: the grown-up you, or the you from childhood."
"Romanticism" was a very complicated Personality Tag. Like "perfectionism" and "idealism," there were several such Personality Tags that could branch into countless definitions.
But complex Personality Tags like these often encompassed both positive and negative aspects. Choosing these Personality Tags meant choosing their flaws as well.
Shivana often mentioned this word in class: an emphasis on freedom and emotion. It represented "fantasy," represented "passion." It meant being full of unrealistically beautiful imaginings about the future and every person and thing they encountered. It meant they embraced every imperfection.
Was that how her teachers saw her childhood self?
The Star Rail and the river of stars in the sky were still so beautiful. She had once spent an entire year in a little boat on that long river, yet she still had not tired of the sight.
For some reason, she thought of Zhuri's and Huang Jin's expressions when they had stepped