Tang Wuling's expression immediately fell. "Sorry."
After thinking seriously for a moment, she added, "If I'd known you were this pretty, I would've gone alone."
Lin An: "?"
Wasn't there something wrong with the focus of her reflection?
Xie Xie burst out laughing. "Godfather, you have no idea. We actually had Gu Yue go pick you up back then, but she was so shy she didn't dare go up and talk to you. She was nothing like the shameless person she is now."
Gu Yue instantly turned her head. "Shut up."
Completely ignoring her increasingly dangerous glare, Xie Xie continued, "Don't let Teacher Wu's sour face fool you. Once she found out no one was there to pick you up, she was the most anxious one. She said that if we got there any later, you might've been dealt with for no reason."
Lin An turned to look at Gu Yue.
Gu Yue's cheeks visibly stiffened.
Of course she remembered.
The first time she had truly seen Lin An from afar, her whole body had frozen.
That face overlapped with the Dragon Queen in her memories, yet there were obvious differences.
Pale, exquisite, and so frail that a slightly stronger wind seemed as though it could blow her away.
Yet that sense of fragility didn't make her seem pathetic. Instead, all the reason in Gu Yue's mind had stalled for an instant.
She had lived in Star Dou Forest for who knew how many years. What hadn't she seen?
Yet that day, she hadn't even dared approach her.
The more Gu Yue thought about it, the more embarrassing it felt. She immediately argued stubbornly, "Can you blame me? With such a beautiful Little She-Dragon, who would have the nerve to go up and strike up a conversation? Only shameless people