Xu Qizhen couldn't help measuring her size with his hands.
A little sprite from the cartoons he'd watched as a child appeared in his mind.
Xu Qizhen was a little dazed.
So... that was what she looked like?
She seemed even more magical now...
"Isn't she... a monster?"
Why would she look like a little sprite?
For some reason... in his mind, monsters and sprites belonged to completely different styles—even different dimensions.
Monsters were the product of people's imaginations, appearing in unofficial histories and ancient texts.
They were strange and bizarre, and most of them harmed people.
Sprites, on the other hand, were beautiful symbols from fairy tales.
They were friends to children and to grown-ups who had never lost their childlike wonder.
A monster that looked like a sprite?
"Does she have wings, too?"
Xiao Xiao chuckled.
Was that the image people had of sprites?
Why did everyone ask about wings whenever sprites came up?
Still, sprites' wings were as thin as a cicada's, shimmering with firefly-like light. They really were beautiful, as if specks of light were constantly falling from them.
"Yeah."
Xiao Xiao nodded. "She has wings."
"But they're probably not what you're imagining."
Xiao Xiao's eyes curved with a smile.
"Huh?"
Xu Qizhen stared blankly.
What he was imagining...
"Doesn't she have wings like a dragonfly's?"
When he thought of transparent wings, the first thing that came to mind was a dragonfly's.
Whenever dragonflies appeared before it rained, they always caught his attention.
As a child, he'd even thought their wings looked as if they'd been pulled from syrup.
Thin and crisp.
In the light, their colors seemed to shimmer with a rainbow sheen.
"Her wings are shaped like scissors, like a swallow's."
The corners of Xiao Xiao's mouth lifted.
"I'm