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After days of bad luck, and hearing from Lu Xiaoxiao about the irresponsible things Sister Dongfang—whom she'd placed such high hopes in—had said...
Lu Xiaoxiao found herself struggling to calm her surging emotions.
When Lu Xiaoxiao looked at the "old lady" again, her gaze was no longer as sharp as before.
"I'm not joking."
A faint sigh seemed to slip into the "old lady's" voice.
"Why do you always think I'm joking?"
"I'm serious."
"Because what you say sounds like a joke."
Yu Yuer blurted it out.
The "old lady" froze for a moment.
Then a trace of helplessness appeared on her face.
"How does what I say sound like a joke?"
"I don't like joking."
Yu Yuer and the others agreed with that last part.
Sister Dongfang hadn't seemed like the joking type at first glance.
They didn't mean that she couldn't take a joke.
They weren't saying it as an insult.
Of course.
Maybe no one would have the heart to joke with Sister Dongfang, either.
What they meant was...
Well... Sister Dongfang had such an outstanding aura.
A beautiful woman with an aura like that...
At first glance—
No.
No matter how you looked at her...
No one would associate her with the trait of liking to joke around.
It somehow felt like an offense, as if one were being rude to a beauty.
But that first part...
"You're serious?"
Yu Yuer's eye twitched.
"Think back on what you just said."
"And what you told us before."
Yu Yuer slowed down a little.
She was getting worked up.
"Anyone who heard those things you said would think..."
"you-were-jok-ing."
Yu Yuer enunciated every syllable.
The "old lady": ...
"I don't understand."
Wow.
Yu Yuer told