Strictly speaking, Nightless Sky Huo Ming and Nightless Sky Fire Apricot, despite being sisters, were not actually very close.
There was nearly an eight-year age gap between them. They were also half-sisters with the same mother, and their different paths of development meant they had few opportunities to spend time together as children.
Especially later, when Nightless Sky Huo Ming was dispatched to the Great Wilderness to oversee part of the family's affairs before reaching adulthood, she had barely seen her youngest sister a few times.
Nightless Sky Huo Le and Nightless Sky Huo Shu, on the other hand, had many opportunities to contact Nightless Sky Huo Ming because of official business.
Thus, although Nightless Sky Huo Ming knew Nightless Sky Fire Apricot... that was all it amounted to.
She knew more about Nightless Sky Fire Apricot through rumors than through personal experience.
So when Nightless Sky Huo Ming saw Nightless Sky Fire Apricot appear outside her window, she was initially extremely surprised. But after recalling all the rumors about Nightless Sky Fire Apricot, she no longer found it unexpected.
She reached out and pulled Nightless Sky Fire Apricot into the room with one hand from the narrow ledge beneath her window.
After all, if Nightless Sky Fire Apricot fell and suffered some mishap in her courtyard, their mother would most likely blame her.
At the same time, Nightless Sky Huo Ming recognized the bone Nightless Sky Fire Apricot was holding... It was probably left over from the meat she had roasted that afternoon.
Combining that with the other girl's comments about foraging, Nightless Sky Huo Ming looked helplessly at Nightless Sky Fire Apricot, who had been hauled through the window and was still sitting on her table, gnawing on the bone.
"If you're hungry, you could just ask the