"I Like... 'May I ask, Princess?'"
"What is it?"
Ye Qingxian leaned a little closer, staring at the increasingly distinct blush on my face. Her soft laughter was filled with Junior Sister's startling remarks from just now.
Junior Sister usually looked rather shy.
Yet each time, her courage grew bolder than before. Now she even dared bring up this sort of topic...
No.
So Junior Sister was teasing her?
Before Ye Qingxian could belatedly realize it, the young girl before her gave her a light push. A fleeting flash of white showed in her red eyes, making her all the more adorable. "What Princess? All you know is how to tease me..."
"If you aren't the Princess, then who is? There isn't a second person here. Could I be talking about myself?" Ye Qingxian took the opportunity to catch my lowered hand, taking in the soft delicacy within her palm. The smooth skin beneath her fingertips was like the finest mutton-fat white jade, so lovely she could not bear to let go. "Junior Sister, just admit it already. Can't you see that someone has come, drawn by your fame, to offer loyalty to you, this little princess?"
I rolled my eyes at her again. Naturally, I didn't believe her, but I gave a soft humph and deliberately followed along with her topic. My eyes spun as a rare trace of spoiled arrogance entered my voice. "Fine. Didn't you say I'm a princess? Then I'm Princess now. I just asked you a question, and you—why didn't you answer!"
And I was a little upset, too.
I had finally worked up the courage to give that blockhead a fierce jab of enlightenment.
Yet she had so easily steered around it, then turned around and teased me instead!
I fixed Ye Qingxian with