"Nalan, Yanran, I..."
"Don't call me your little sister! Or I'll, I'll..."
Xiao Yan was still struggling with what to call Nalan Yanran, but she cut him off the moment he opened his mouth.
Yet Nalan Yanran stammered "I'll" for ages without ever managing to say what she would do.
In the end, she stamped her foot and sulked by herself.
Xiao Yan: "..."
Wait, he hadn't even said anything. He'd called her his little sister once, and she was angry?
Xiao Yan was baffled.
His fiancée seemed a little hard to please!
"Hmm... Then what should I call you from now on? Miss Nalan? Miss Yanran? Little Sister Nalan? Little Sister Yanran?"
With their relationship so awkward, Xiao Yan felt that nothing he called her sounded quite right.
The first two sounded too distant, while she apparently disliked the last two.
"Whatever you want, as long as you don't call me your little sister!"
After giving Xiao Yan that answer, Nalan Yanran turned her head away.
Xiao Yan could only smile wryly.
"All right. Then I'll just call you Yanran?"
Xiao Yan ventured.
After turning it over in his mind, Xiao Yan felt that using her name directly would be best.
"I already said, call me whatever you want!"
Perhaps he was imagining it, but after she said that, Xiao Yan noticed that Nalan Yanran's cheeks and earlobes seemed a little redder than before.
There was, after all, a bond between them that neither could quite put into words. Even though this was their first meeting, they treated each other differently from everyone else.
And so Xiao Yan finally managed to strike up a conversation with Nalan Yanran.
But as Xun'er watched the two of them interact, she was almost unable to maintain her usual poised smile.
*Hmph. If