A tear fell onto Huan Huan's nose.
Just like the tear that had landed on it earlier... it was scalding hot.
The girl's large, lifeless eyes brimmed with tears.
They fell one by one.
The girl was clearly overwhelmed with emotion.
Yet she remained quiet.
She simply held Huan Huan and wept silently.
Huan Huan thought of the first time it had met this girl...
She had been just like this then.
Alone, quietly shedding tears.
Her whole body trembling as she cried...
But whenever someone came by, the girl would immediately wipe the tears from her face.
Pretending nothing had happened.
Even wearing a faint smile.
The girl was used to crying in silence.
So she wouldn't trouble anyone.
So she wouldn't make anyone worry.
As far as Huan Huan was concerned, the girl's tears...
were truly a rare sight.
The girl was always smiling at it.
She said that meeting it was the greatest stroke of luck in her life.
She thanked it for bringing color into her world.
For making her world no longer completely dark.
In every sense, Huan Huan was Chen Xi's light.
The girl soon regained control of her emotions.
She wiped away her tears.
Then she gave Huan Huan... a smile more familiar to the yaoguai than any other.
Her eyes were still moist from crying.
They seemed to add a touch of life to her otherwise vacant gaze.
For a moment, one might have thought the girl wasn't blind at all.
"Huan Huan."
The girl's voice was cheerful.
"You're back."
"Welcome home."
Her smile bloomed like a flower.
A glimmer passed through Huan Huan's eyes.
This girl...
Its gaze drifted to the side.
But soon, it looked back at her.
It thought...
Next time, it