Ling'e perked right up at those words.
All these years, in order to win over her senior brother, she had racked her brains and schemed every possible way, yet she had never been able to figure him out. It often left her feeling rather defeated.
Ling'e was truly afraid—afraid that her senior brother's care for her would, after enough caring, become nothing more than pure "looking after"...
She was a junior sister who, at sixteen or seventeen, when love had first stirred in her heart, had been influenced by the Aura of cultivation partners within the sect and resolved that she had to become her senior brother's cultivation partner in this life!
But with that, the expectations in Ling'e's heart dwindled considerably.
She roughly knew what this adorable little sister from the Merfolk Race could offer...
The way to push a senior brother forward was nothing more than the three great methods of medicine, clothes, and feelings: tugging at the heartstrings, setting the scene, pretending to be drunk and delicate, catering to his preferences, playing hard to get, feigning refusal while welcoming him in, and the like—nine minor techniques in all.
Over all these years, she had never let herself fail at failing. What approach she could think of had she not tried?
Only recently had she felt that perhaps her senior brother had no mind to seek a cultivation partner at this stage. So she had focused on reinforcing her image as his junior sister, while also keeping a certain distance from him, lest she... truly be regarded by her senior brother as his own little sister!
Thus, Ling'e did not hold much hope. She merely responded politely:
"To be honest, little sister, there is naturally someone in my heart."
Jiu Jiu immediately burst out laughing beside her and