Shui Bing'er looked at the faint but unmistakable joy on Shen Hanyu and the Snow Empress's faces, then laughed softly.
"Could something incredibly wonderful have happened? Why are both Older Brother and Sister so happy? And that phenomenon just now—I think it must have had something to do with you two..."
Ye Lingling also leaned in from the side. Though she said nothing, the curiosity in her eyes was impossible to conceal. Clearly, she was deeply curious and concerned about the matter as well.
Shen Hanyu rubbed the heads of both girls in turn, then immediately pinched Shen Xinyu's cheeks as she stood beside him with her eyes wide open. Only then did he say teasingly,
"Why don't you guess for yourselves? You've been with me for quite a while now. You should have been prepared for something like this..."
Shui Bing'er froze slightly. Shen Hanyu and the Snow Empress's strange attitudes gave her a bold guess for no apparent reason. Ye Lingling also pressed her lips tightly together, as though she had already thought of something.
At this point, only Shen Liuyu and Shen Xinyu exchanged bewildered looks. Then, as though they had finally found their own kind, the two eagerly huddled together and began whispering to each other.
Shen Hanyu looked helplessly at the two of them, not knowing what to say for a moment.
The smile on the Snow Empress's lips never faded. Perhaps because her greatest wish in all these years had finally been fulfilled, the icy chill surrounding her seemed to melt away in an instant. Her entire demeanor became gentler. Put another way, the Snow Empress now seemed enveloped in the glow of mother's love, kind and tender.
Shui Bing'er covered her lips in surprise before saying,
"Could it be..."
The Snow Empress looked