The next day.
I had barely gotten up when I saw Ye Qingxian in the courtyard.
My mood immediately soured.
I asked, my tone giving nothing away, "What are you doing here?"
Ye Qingxian took out a large amount of Spirit Rice and food. "Stop going up the mountain to dig for wild vegetables. The sect's short-staffed lately, and no one's gone to clear out the demonic beasts in the mountains for a long time."
"I was afraid... you might..."
I frowned and called her by name. "Ye Qingxian..."
I decided to make myself clearer, so she couldn't brush me off again with something about us being fellow senior and junior sisters.
"Ye Qingxian, we're both adults now."
"Please stop fooling yourself."
"I already have someone I like."
"You—stay away from me from now on."
Ye Qingxian's face turned pale at my words.
A bitter smile spread across her face, and she wished she could slap herself.
Hah.
She should've known the answer long ago. It had been right in front of her.
And yet she'd insisted on asking a question whose answer would leave her utterly shattered.
"She... who is she?"
I stared at Ye Qingxian and said each word distinctly. "Qing Ye."
"If you lay a hand on her, I'll blow myself up with you. Even if I die, I'll splash your whole body with my blood..." By the end, my threat sounded so pathetic that I simply shut my mouth.
At those two words,
Ye Qingxian's mind boomed. Her body swayed, and the world spun around her.
Qing Ye.
It was Qing Ye.
So Ye Qingxian had never been anything at all to begin with.
She couldn't even measure up to a Little Little Qing Ye.
That was Ye Qingxian: a laughable person indeed.
Ye Qingxian raised