"Um... Sister Xue asked you to come over, saying she had something important to discuss. It'll only take a moment, just a tiny moment. Sister Xue said she would definitely make it up to the sisters who come next!" Li Nianjun kept her eyes tightly shut and pressed her palms together, pleading sheepishly.
Seeing the unfriendly looks from the group of sisters, Jing Xiaoman was frightened into taking a step back as well. "Sisters, we really aren't here to cause trouble. It's an emergency! Sister Xue's child still didn't have a settled name before, and we didn't come here deliberately to make mischief!"
Since the two of them had put it that way, no matter how displeased the group of sisters was, they could no longer stop them. All they could do was look toward me.
I looked at everyone and said, "It shouldn't take too long. I'll go and come right back."
Before long, I was standing beside Xue Qingcheng once more.
Looking at the mountains rising and falling before the mountaintop, along with the various flowers and plants around us, I didn't immediately ask anything. Instead, I stood with her for quite a while.
"Xia Ruge, Xia Lingchen, Xia Rulan... They're all such good names." Xue Qingcheng murmured them as if repeating them to herself.
I smiled and said, "What requirements do you have, then? Were the names we came up with earlier no good?"
"It's not that they're no good. It's just that several of the alternatives were too refined and scholarly! Now that I think about it, they don't seem very suitable anymore! Especially when placed alongside the two palaces and one House... They'd be at such a disadvantage!" Xue Qingcheng looked thoroughly vexed.
"Really... A child's name does need to be considered from many angles,