Lu Xiaoxiao's eyes instantly lit up when she heard Lu Jiaoyue ask, "Could the immortal who appeared in your dream have also told you about our family's fates, or romantic destinies?"
Oh, perfect! A pillow had appeared just as she was getting sleepy! She'd been struggling to explain that "Mr. Right" remark, and Jiaoyue had handed her an escape route! What a thoughtful girl!
"Yes, exactly! Jiaoyue, how is that little head of yours so clever? You guessed it perfectly! Hahaha!" Lu Xiaoxiao immediately seized the opening, plastering on an exaggerated, mysterious smile that hinted, "You know what I mean," while nodding repeatedly. Yet there was a barely perceptible trace of... guilt and awkwardness in her laughter.
She hurriedly cleared her throat, trying to make her expression look more sincere, and continued inventing... no, explaining, "The immortal just mentioned it in passing! Something about... um... you two sharing a deep connection, the kind that's... destined! A very special bond! That was why I had that feeling at the time and muttered it to myself!"
As she spoke, she secretly watched Lu Jiaoyue's reaction. Seeing her sister listening attentively, with an expression that seemed to say, "So that's why," she inwardly breathed a sigh of relief.
Phew... an immortal appearing in a dream really was the perfect excuse for everything!
However, once the relief of escaping that crisis passed and Lu Xiaoxiao calmed down, a faint unease crept into her heart.
Was it really right to do this...?
According to the main plot, Gu Sipei and Lu Jiaoyue were indeed the canonical couple, and this world would be doomed one way or another if their romance never reached its conclusion.
*But... by invoking an "immortal's decree," wasn't she, in a way, planting an unhealthy suggestion in Jiaoyue's mind and steering her?