"Wow! A-Yan, you're amazing!"
Yan Fei dramatically covered her eyes with both hands, but the gaps between her fingers were spread wide, revealing two slyly smiling eyes.
"Wow! Such blinding golden light! I can barely keep my eyes open!"
Yue Shen was even more dramatic. One hand covered her eyes while the other flailed wildly through the air. She leaned so far back in her chair that she nearly toppled over.
"Is this the talent of the Zhao Clan's eldest daughter? Just testing her Innate Soul Power caused such an exaggerated spectacle?" Nong Yu chimed in obligingly.
She rose from her chair and struck a pose as though she had been shocked backward, not forgetting to dramatically fan the air with her sleeve.
Shao Siming said nothing. She merely stood quietly in the corner, lightly shielding her eyes with the back of her hand.
Even the corners of her usually cool, detached face curled slightly upward.
This was already the most exaggerated way she could possibly "play along."
"Aunties!" A-Yan stomped her foot and quickly lifted her hand off the crystal ball. "Can you stop teasing A-Yan...?"
The little girl planted her hands on her hips, swept her gaze over the adults around her, then pouted.
"You must have already known A-Yan's Innate Soul Power! You deliberately came to make fun of A-Yan!"
Her little mouth was pouted enough to hang an oil bottle from it, and her resentful eyes swept over each of her aunties' faces. She looked just like a little grown-up who had been fooled by adults and was now demanding an explanation.
"Hehe, how could that be?" Yan Fei smiled as she crouched down.
She gently stroked A-Yan's slightly puffed-up hair and said tenderly, "Your auntie was genuinely shocked by you."
"That's right, A-Yan." Zhao Linchuan