Mira?
Why?
Sansa clutched the hem of her dress tightly, staring fixedly at Mira...
When Mira dodged Borton, she also noticed Sansa's wolf-like stare. She was immediately baffled...
She had always kept her distance from the strange eldest daughter of the Second Branch...
Back then, when many people targeted the Second Branch, they had isolated and bullied its younger generation to varying degrees. Aside from the children of a few direct-line elders, no one else had dared resort to outright bullying, but they had basically all been ostracized.
Take Chen Ye, for example. He had barely interacted with the other family members from childhood onward. Nicole was even more extreme; she had simply slipped away from home, and whenever she returned, she would go play at the Fourth Elder's place, who doted on her the most. She rarely interacted with the other juniors.
Sansa alone was different. She had forced her way into the circle of the First Branch's faction...
No one had expected Sansa to be closer to her eldest uncle since childhood. Raine was also exceptionally good to Sansa in public, which gradually changed the younger generation's attitude toward her. At least, no one dared target her openly anymore. Quite a few even fawned over her.
But Mira looked down on this girl. Even when she had been very young and had disliked the Second Branch, she had never thought highly of Sansa. No matter how disliked the Second Branch was, it was still her own family. She had gone out of her way to curry favor with outsiders while treating her own parents with hostility, and she had been utterly cold toward Chen Ye, who was subjected to cold violence. Mira had always felt that the girl was a complete idiot...
Still, although Mira did not like