Only now did Gu Yao finally realize, belatedly, what the others had been thinking.
[Package them up and sell them off.]
Lin Yue's casual words echoed over and over in Gu Yao's mind, impossible to dispel.
In her panic, she lost control of her emotions. Her eyes quickly reddened, and tears glimmered at their corners.
At the end of the day, she was only a child longing for her father, Gu Ze, to pay attention to her.
Her provocations toward Gu Yu and her cutting remarks had merely been attempts to win favor.
It was true that she wanted to challenge her sister's position, and true that she wanted to prove herself, but she had never harbored any intent to kill.
And now...
When she thought of the situation she might face in the future—being sold to a foreign land, reduced to a prisoner, and forever losing everything she had now—
Gu Yao curled herself up and began to tremble.
Seeing her pitiful state, Chen Xi quietly asked Gu Yu through the shadow communication, "Still teasing her?"
Looking at Gu Yao's pitiful appearance, Gu Yu's gaze shifted slightly, and she had originally intended to let it go.
But then, the image that surfaced in her mind was that smug, cocky little sister from their childhood.
Gu Yao had held her chin high, hands on her hips, and said in a childish yet piercing voice, "Such a weak sister doesn't deserve to be a Saintess candidate."
Resentment surged within the blue-haired girl.
"Keep going!" she said viciously to herself.
She had to make this disrespectful little sister understand who the real older sister was.
"Got it."
Chen Xi chuckled, just about to make up more terrifying tortures from the Blood Moon Empire, when Gu Yao had already completely surrendered.
"Big Sis!"