"You've been in here all night. Aren't you planning to come out, Xia Yitian!" Qi Nuannuan was furious. She had arrived just as I released Liu Xiaomiao, who still had a flush spread across her face. It was hard not to misunderstand.
"Sis Nuannuan..." Liu Xiaomiao had only just advanced and still hadn't recovered. When she saw Qi Nuannuan arrive, her face immediately flushed with embarrassment, as though she had betrayed her friend.
"Don't call me that! You've already become Xia Yitian's ghost, haven't you? I treated you like a sister all this time, yet you actually hid it from me... You became Xia Yitian's ghost without even telling me..." Qi Nuannuan was overwhelmed by jealousy.
Zheng Qingling seemed unsure what the problem was. She looked timidly at me, as if saying, See? You've made Mother angry again, haven't you? Why can't you ever behave?
I smiled bitterly and said to Qi Nuannuan, "Nuannuan, it's not what you think. We were cultivating just now."
"Dual cultivation? Do you think I don't know?" Qi Nuannuan looked deeply aggrieved. Facing her friend's betrayal and my dishonesty, she felt she had had enough. After saying that, she stopped paying attention to me and left with her daughter.
"Young Master! It's all your fault! Hurry up and go comfort Sis Nuannuan!" Liu Xiaomiao shoved me with a flushed face, then shyly slipped into the Soul Urn.
I immediately became a little angry too. What was all this supposed to mean? Why was it my fault again?
Still, it seemed I couldn't entirely blame Liu Xiaomiao. I had been the one to refuse when Qi Nuannuan wanted to take her out. Now that she had seen Liu Xiaomiao not only become my household ghost but also spend the entire night with me in the cave