"Senior Sister."
"Why did you bring me to a place like this?"
It was my first time coming somewhere this high.
There wasn't even any aerial artifact beneath my feet, so I felt a little unaccustomed to it.
Ye Qingxian said with a smile, "Didn't you want to witness the Cultivation World's complicated methods of battle? I brought you somewhere farther away to watch. It'll help more than you studying cultivation technique catalogs alone in the Hidden Gold Pavilion."
I froze for a moment. "How did you know?"
Ye Qingxian knew she had let something slip.
She had a secret that absolutely could not be discovered.
That was—since a long time ago, she had saved countless adorably smoking-hot pictures of her Junior Sister.
No matter the angle from which Ye Xiaoyao was captured, she was perfectly cute enough to melt the very tip of one's heart.
Ye Qingxian had never understood her own motives before.
Yet the truth was that, even as she kept insisting she did not like her, she had already left behind countless pieces of evidence to condemn herself. Ye Qingxian had never intended to lie; she simply had not yet figured out how to tell the truth while facing her Junior Sister's towering fury, and how, amid Xiaoyao kitty's blazing rage, to give her actions an explanation that did not contradict itself.
Ye Qingxian did not answer.
I pursed my lips and muttered softly, "You were spying on me again."
Ye Qingxian: "..."
So Junior Sister had known all along.
She... simply wasn't angry.
How could there be such a gentle girl in this world?
Drowning in guilt, Ye Qingxian nearly spilled all her "crimes" in one breath.
Secretly taking pictures of her Junior Sister really was pretty low.
Ye Qingxian asked tentatively, "Junior Sister, if