To be honest, this was a perfectly normal phenomenon!
It wasn't just them. Take some other examples...
Bai Hanxue, Xia Yuhan, Ye Xian'er...
They were beautiful, gorgeous, and their status back then wasn't as high as these people's, yet they had very few friends!
How should one put it?
It wasn't that they weren't well-liked, nor could you say they were too aloof and didn't want to make friends!
It was simply that, given their personalities, they really weren't easy to befriend!
Even setting them aside, think about Liu Qingyu. She wasn't particularly cold, was she? She was merely a refined young lady! Yet she had very few friends too.
How should this phenomenon be explained?
Think carefully about this: if a beautiful woman—yes, an exceptionally beautiful and outstanding woman—had many friends, then there had to be something wrong with her!
Of course, unless she was an outgoing girl like Zi Yanran!
Why?
Because she was more likely to make friends with equally outstanding girls. Why wouldn't she make friends with ordinary girls?
It wasn't that she refused to, nor that she looked down on them. Rather, ordinary girls who approached them might not be doing so with the genuine intention of becoming friends!
And there definitely wouldn't be boys around such girls either. Flies don't gather around uncracked eggs. If a girl had many boys around her, there had to be a reason for it!
Of course, many things weren't absolute. It was just that having no close friends, or not having many close friends, was actually perfectly normal for them.
Besides, they all cultivated with great dedication, which meant they wouldn't spend much time socializing! It was normal for them to have few friends!
Just look at Ye Xian'er and Bai Hanxue!
They had been good friends since