Profound Heaven Street (2)

Chu Xuan lightly brushed the warm pomegranate-red stone at her wrist with her fingertips, feeling the cool touch of the silver bracelet against her skin. The more she looked at it, the more she liked it.

She raised her eyes to Zhu Yaoyao's outfit today, so different from her usual style, curiosity flickering in her gaze. "Come to think of it, why did you decide to wear blue today? I thought you usually liked pink and white best?"

During the tournament, disciples of the various sects were ideally supposed to wear their disciple uniforms. But Hua Wuyi of the Hehuan Sect had failed to emerge from seclusion on schedule and ultimately decided not to come. All matters related to the tournament had been handed over to Zhu Yaoyao, so she was free to do as she pleased.

At her words, Zhu Yaoyao seemed to recall something amusing. The corners of her lips curled upward, and she secretly pursed her lips in a smile. Lowering her voice with a hint of smugness, she said, "I heard... red and blue go very well together!"

As she spoke, her gaze seemingly casually swept over the blazing red at Chu Xuan's wrist.

Shen Yuxi had been standing silently before a glass display case nearby, apparently absorbed in admiring a hollowed jade pendant, while in truth his divine sense enveloped the entire shop. He immediately reacted:

I get it. Since ancient times, red and blue have made the perfect couple. Miss, you've seen through the truth.

Yet this playful remark made Ling Anxin freeze slightly. Almost instinctively, her gaze swept over Zhu Yaoyao's entire outfit today with a trace of scrutiny—

Her hair had been carefully arranged into twin spiral buns, each side adorned with delicate little aqua-blue flower hairpins bearing long tassels. A few