Fine, fine. I rolled my eyes.
You win.
She stubbornly refused to pick up the conversation and steer it toward becoming Dao Companions with me.
It was not that Ye Qingxian did not want to say it.
Ye Qingxian actually wanted very much to say that she would take responsibility, that she would definitely become Dao Companions with Junior Sister.
All they needed was to set a date, then they could hold a Dao Companion ceremony and announce it to all the Cultivators under heaven.
But then she remembered what Junior Sister had said.
Before it truly came from her heart, she was not allowed to say anything like that to her again.
So she could only answer like this.
At this moment, Ye Qingxian had yet to realize that responsibility and love had never been separate things.
Responsibility was the sense of responsibility born from love.
It had never appeared out of thin air.
There were indeed countless examples of people taking responsibility for someone for a lifetime solely out of a sense of duty.
But was Ye Qingxian really like that?
This complicated yet simple question could only receive a definite answer on the day she gained her threads of love and could see clearly whom she loved.
Taking advantage of the last bit of time, Ye Qingxian finished preparing breakfast for the girls.
I was lying sprawled across the stone table, looking at my own separate serving of nutritious breakfast. "Making something special just for me?"
"You're carrying two now. This is exactly when you need nourishment. These are all Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that replenish your qi and blood, and they can help nurture new life to the greatest extent possible."
I remained sprawled there and pondered it for a moment. "All right, then."
"If