"Heh-heh-heh~?"
?(?)?
Just then, Flame Immortal, a certain troublesome little girl, hummed an unknown tune as she swaggered out of the main hall of the Bamboo Grove Courtyard, her steps cocky and carefree. As soon as she entered the yard, she spotted Mo Caihuan happily carrying a basin of clear water toward the small building where her room was.
"??"
(??????)
"Little Koi, what's she doing?"
(?‖)?
Watching her act so strangely—carrying the water into her room, sitting down at the dressing table, and starting to giggle to herself—Annie had never seen anything like it. She forgot all about going out to have fun, hurried to the stone table in the middle of the yard, and asked the brocade carp lying listlessly on top of it.
"What else could she be doing..."
"Getting dressed up!"
Jin Xiaoli replied without even lifting her eyelids, looking utterly miserable.
"??"
く(＾_?)ゝ
"But why does she need to get dressed up?"
ヾ(′??｀?)
Annie was confused.
Mo Caihuan looked beautiful even without makeup. And after eating Flat Peaches and beginning her cultivation over the past year, she'd become even more radiant. She looked like a young woman in her teens. There was no need for her to dress up at all!
Besides, Mo Caihuan had never done this before. She spent her days either cultivating or cooking meals on schedule. When had she ever acted like this?
"What else could it be for!"
"She's getting ready to see her Brother Han!"
Jin Xiaoli continued, sounding thoroughly dispirited.
"Oh!"
(⊙o⊙*)
So that was it!
Annie remembered that the strange man who'd come by that morning was Mo Caihuan's "Brother Han." But she also remembered that he was the very fellow who'd nearly scared away her big fish. She hadn't even had a chance to teach him