For a moment, the corner booth was so quiet that a pin dropping would have been heard.
Larkspur stared fixedly at Xia Liang. After a long while, she blinked twice, suddenly unsure what to say. Or rather, Xia Liang's question had completely caught her off guard, leaving her with no prepared answer at all.
She had never expected Xia Liang to think on that level.
But her silence did not make Xia Liang realize anything. If anything, Xia Liang had been nervous when she asked the question, afraid of angering Larkspur. She could only lower her head and sneak glances at her, then force herself to list the other possibilities she had imagined:
"What exactly was that state like? Did you really turn into a man, inside and out?"
"Was there really a magical Spell Formula that could completely change someone's sex, turn a magical girl into a man, and even let her have children with other women?"
"Or was the way you usually looked as 'Uncle Lin' just an illusion? You didn't really become 'Uncle Lin'? But then where did Xiao Lu come from..."
Though her tone was deeply hesitant, once Xia Liang began talking about the subject, she became increasingly eloquent. She even seemed poised to exhaust every possible answer through imagination alone. This question had clearly been bottled up inside her for a long time.
Yet as Larkspur listened, the hand resting on the table slowly curled into a loose fist.
The fact that Xia Liang had discovered the truth that "Lin Yun and Larkspur were the same person" was already an established reality. Larkspur could frankly tell Xia Liang everything without any burden, because there had never been any need to hide it.
But the subject Xia Liang was discussing now had already gone beyond that