"Mm. I was too happy yesterday. I couldn't sleep last night."
Pan Long looked in surprise at the dark circles under Wu Jixing's eyes. "Aunt Cui and I got engaged. Why were you so happy you couldn't sleep?"
"She's my only sister. She's finally found a good match. What's wrong with me being happy?" Wu Jixing shot back.
Pan Long blinked, unsure how to answer.
Strictly speaking, there was nothing wrong with what Wu Jixing had said.
But... Wu Jixing was an Innate Master, and a strong one even within the Innate Realm. With her cultivation, she could have gone two or three days without food, water, or sleep and still not looked so haggard that she had dark circles under her eyes!
But Wu Jixing had shut down the subject with a single sentence. However curious he was, he had to let it go.
Of course, he had no idea that she looked this way because she had spent the whole night inexplicably restless.
Strangely enough, once dawn came, her restlessness began to fade rapidly on the way to Heaven-Reliant Villa. By the time she sat down in the study and heard that Pan Long had come to visit, her heart was completely calm.
If Pan Long had spent half an hour chatting with someone at the door, he would have found her radiant when he saw her, without a trace of weariness.
"Where's Aunt Cui?" Pan Long changed the subject. "Is she making breakfast?"
Wu Jixing chuckled mischievously. "You want to see her? No can do. By our Wu Family's ancestral custom, the bride and groom can't see each other from the proposal until the wedding procession."
"What? That's a custom?" Pan Long stared at her. "Isn't it usually just the few days before the wedding? Why can't