After they parted ways, Ye Guyi returned to the girls' dormitory alone.
When she pushed open the door, she found that Jiang Nannan was still awake.
Jiang Nannan was lying on her stomach on the bed, propping her chin up with both hands. Her fair little calves swayed gently in the air as she fiddled with her delicate, jade-white fingers and twirled a strand of silky hair around them, lost in thought.
Hearing the door open, Jiang Nannan immediately sat up. A trace of concern and curiosity filled her exceptionally beautiful eyes.
Looking at Ye Guyi as she entered, she asked, "Sister Guyi, where did you go? Why are you back so late?"
Ye Guyi took off her coat, hung it on the rack beside her, then sat down by Jiang Nannan's bed. "I went to see Changqing."
At those words, Jiang Nannan's eyes instantly lit up, and she perked right up.
She shifted closer, blinked her beautiful eyes, and lowered her voice. "What did you talk about? Did you go sit and chat by the lake again?"
Ye Guyi did not hide anything. She recounted every detail of her conversation with Li Changqing that night to Jiang Nannan.
She trusted that there would be no absurd nonsense like eavesdroppers through the walls in a girls' dormitory.
Jiang Nannan listened with great interest at first, but when Ye Guyi mentioned "replacing them" and the third path, she froze on the spot. Her big, beautiful eyes widened round, her cherry lips parted slightly, and she could not close them for a long while.
She could understand the first path.
It was nothing more than refusing to live under someone else's roof. That was perfectly normal.
Many ambitious and gifted Soul Masters ultimately chose that path.
But the second and third paths...