Platinum Eye.
Having just finished her homework, Xiao Yuan went to the studio Old Mrs. Lu had prepared for them and continued carving stones. Before long, Tan Qi came to call her for dinner. Without looking up, she said, "You go ahead. I'll come in a bit."
Tan Qi didn't leave. He stood where he was and said, "You should eat first. You can't focus when you're hungry."
"I'm not really hungry yet." Xiao Yuan kept working. "I'm not as talented as you, so of course I have to work harder."
Tan Qi simply sat down to wait for her.
"Go eat first," Xiao Yuan said. "You don't have to wait for me."
Tan Qi hesitantly picked up a book from beside him. "I'm not hungry either."
Seeing that he wouldn't leave, Xiao Yuan said no more. She simply put even more effort into carving the stone in her hands. But she really wasn't very talented. After practicing for so long, she still lost control of her hand and cut herself.
The carving knife fell onto the table. She clutched her hand, stifling a cry.
Tan Qi immediately got up and came over. Once he saw that the cut wasn't serious, he fetched the first-aid kit and treated it for her.
"If you really can't learn this, you could learn something else," he suggested as he tended to the wound. "Besides crafting, potions can be useful too."
Xiao Yuan looked a little sad. "I'm not very smart. I can't even carve a stone, so how could I learn to make potions? My deskmate brought a book about potion-making to school a few days ago, and I borrowed it to read. I couldn't even pronounce the names of the potion recipes."
Tan Qi couldn't think of anything better to say, so