With the birth of that thought, my heart had barely rejoiced before it suddenly chilled again.
Yeah.
Even if Ye Qingxian liked me, what did that have to do with... wanting to be with me?
That whole set of inhuman theories of Ye Qingxian's.
By now, I could recite them backward, and they made my teeth itch with hatred. I wanted nothing more than to beat Ye Qingxian up again.
Of course, I knew it was because her love thread had yet to grow.
At this very moment, the only obsession in my heart—
Was that once Ye Qingxian's love thread had fully grown, I would definitely hold her head down and question her face-to-face on our wedding night beneath the red candles.
Make her analyze for herself whether the things she had once said were outrageous or not.
Th-this... was that something a person could say?
Can't swear.
I muttered it to myself once.
Still, it should be soon.
My reasoning shouldn't be wrong.
Senior Sister had at least realized that she liked me. At most, there were only one or two steps left. Once she crossed them, she would reach the Heart-Locking Trial she could no longer evade.
Once she successfully locked her heart, all of Ye Qingxian's wishful thinking and disguises could be torn to shreds before her very eyes, and her love thread would completely grow out then.
Even now, I still remembered just how deeply Ye Qingxian had loved me in those days.
In other words, all the grievances I was suffering now could wait until Ye Qingxian's love thread had fully grown, when I could fiercely grill and complain to her face.
When that time came, I absolutely had to hear how Ye Qingxian intended to explain herself to me—and how she planned to