"Junior Sister, take a look."
"I'm not lying. It's beautiful."
Ye Qingxian nudged my shoulder, trying to rouse her Junior Sister, who was ignoring her.
But the sight of that thin shoulder shifting under her touch only made Ye Qingxian feel even more heartache.
My body swayed twice, but I still wouldn't turn my head.
"No."
A broken hair clip, and she thought she could cheer me up.
What kind of easy pushover was I, Ye Xiaoyao?
She... had made a serious mistake.
I... was still upset.
Whenever I thought about how I could be casually dismissed, how someone could try to fob me off with some made-up excuse, it hurt so much I could hardly bear it. Wasn't that proof that, in other people's eyes, I was someone utterly unimportant, someone they could deal with at the drop of a hat? I couldn't face my beloved Senior Sister with a calm heart anymore.
"Junior Sister, just take a look."
"If you don't want it, I'll take it back." Ye Qingxian tried a different approach.
At last, I turned my head, reluctantly, and looked at the familiar silvery-white glimmers on the hair clip. "Hmm...?"
"You guessed right." Ye Qingxian answered her own question. "These are the stars of White Cloud Lake, the distinctive gleam of the place where the crabs you love to eat come from. I picked them myself just now, then used my Divine Abilities to condense them into glowing silver sand and set them into the golden threads of the hair clip."
"Just now..." I tilted my head slightly. "You made this yourself?"
"Did you personally return to Supreme Heaven for Ye Xiaoyao?"
My tone grew more solemn in that last sentence.
Those words mattered a great deal to me.
"That's right." Ye Qingxian answered seriously.
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