Ji Yunhuai left without so much as looking back, leaving Lu Jiaoyue, who had witnessed the whole exchange, utterly bewildered.
And Lu Jiaoyue wasn't the only one. System 037 was just as bewildered.
"Host, what are you doing? Why pick a fight with that royal pain out of nowhere? Ji Yunhuai sounded pretty concerned about you at first. You finally managed to get your relationship to where it is today, and now... doesn't this undo all that progress?"
The system sounded frantic, but Lu Xiaoxiao wasn't worried in the slightest. Her voice was downright breezy. "Oh, stay out of it. You don't understand at all!"
The system was losing its mind. "I really don't understand! If you have some goal in mind, explain it!"
"I thought you could see things more clearly than I could. Aren't you a system? Can't you check people's affection scores toward me or something?" Lu Xiaoxiao linked arms with Lu Jiaoyue and continued leading her onward as she replied distractedly to the system. "Have you considered that our relationship might have improved not because of anything I did, but because he likes me?"
"Huh?" The system briefly froze. Hearing the disdain in Lu Xiaoxiao's voice, it hurried to defend itself. "I don't have access to affection scores, okay? Our goal isn't to win anyone's heart. It's to save the world!"
"Pfft, hahahaha! I can't! Hearing you say 'save the world' sounds so ridiculously dramatic!"
The system said, "...That's not the point!!! So how exactly did you figure out Ji Yunhuai likes you? What's your evidence?"
"Why would I need evidence? I can't really explain the specifics. It's mostly a gut feeling." Lu Xiaoxiao answered with complete confidence. After thinking for two seconds, she added, "Besides, with that tyrannical temper of his, if he really couldn't