I was waiting for an answer.
I had always been waiting for an answer...
A reason that could put my mind at ease enough for me to keep going.
I needed one affirmative answer.
One positive reply.
Only then could I strengthen my resolve to run toward her once more.
I... no longer dared hope for that much. In the day after day of waiting, I had long since stopped fantasizing about having a proper title.
Titles like Dao Companion.
In the past, I had considered it countless times.
But in the end, I had lowered my demands again and again. It seemed that all I had left was the hope of receiving one slightly positive reply.
To hear Junior Sister's frank and fervent confession once more.
Ye Qingxian's panic did not seem fake.
Even now.
As for the truth of whether Junior Sister liked her, Ye Qingxian had actually already believed it to some extent.
It was just that she could not feel her own love. She did not know how to respond positively, nor could she understand why her various actions were so abnormal.
Her confusion, her hesitation, were like the core driving force.
The actions she ultimately took seemed almost like an attempt to escape.
But she had never thought of escaping.
"Senior Sister, Xiaoyao is begging you. Please look at me. Even if it's out of pity, answer me once. Just once."
My plea continued as I gazed bitterly at Ye Qingxian's expression.
This time.
I was destined to be disappointed again.
Ye Qingxian intended to answer, but she stumbled over her words time and again.
Feelings she could not understand kept her from saying those words of acknowledgment. Yet under the interference of her memories, she could not bring herself to utter the most heartless