After sending the hairpin that night.
In truth, Jiang Lin was still feeling rather nervous.
After all, how should he put it? A hairpin was indeed far too personal. Even though he himself had not meant anything by it and had only wanted to express his gratitude to Azure Bamboo Lady for the Water Essence Bamboo and Qing Bi Water, it was hard to avoid the other party reading too much into it...
Could Azure Bamboo Lady think that he harbored ill intentions and had ulterior motives?
Sure enough, he should not have sent the hairpin, should he...
Remembering how, at Peach Blossom Street Market that day, he had originally wanted to choose some other gift, such as a writing brush or something...
But his master had rejected all of those, then raised her little foot and softly kicked him, cursing him for being a Big Idiot...
In the end, his master had dragged him back to the shop selling Glazed Hairpins and personally handed him another hairpin in the shape of a bamboo leaf.
Only then did Jiang Lin learn that the hairpins had originally been a pair...
"Although Master isn't happy, Little Lin giving this one is fine!"
After tossing out those words, Jiang Yuni had run off with her little mouth pursed. She looked angry, but apparently not at Jiang Lin—rather, at herself?
In the end, Jiang Lin had sent one of the hairpins.
And when he imagined that hairpin nestled among Azure Bamboo Lady's hair, the more he thought about it, the more suitable it seemed.
But after sending it...
That night, lying on the swing in the courtyard, Jiang Lin felt more and more ashamed the more he thought about it...
"Hu..." Jiang Lin took a deep breath and decided not to think about it