"When I went to pick out a sword tassel today, I happened to see these gloves. Try them on."
That was what Jingliu said, but both Xianyu and Baiheng knew it was merely the Sword Champion's lie.
Xianyu put on the black gloves as instructed. They fit perfectly.
Well, the material was rather unusual. It looked quite sheer?
Although he did not really understand young people's tastes these days, he would keep wearing these gloves.
Before he could thank her, Jingliu spoke again, her voice very soft:
"With gloves on, your hands won't get dirty."
At those words, Xianyu felt all the surrounding noise recede like a tide, leaving him to hear that sentence with perfect clarity.
A jumble of emotions stirred in his heart.
She even remembered the nonsense I said when I was drunk?
Not only remembered it, but... went out of her way to give me these gloves?
By comparison, the hundreds of billions of Credits he had spent suddenly seemed far less heartfelt.
Xianyu had merely selected some antique jewelry and left everything afterward to an Interastral Peace Corporation executive.
The only gifts that could really be called thoughtful were the three hairpins he had commissioned from Yingxing.
He had specifically chosen the moon on the ribbon around Jingliu's left arm as a motif for the hairpins.
As for the night-blooming cereus on Jingliu's right arm...
Pretty though it was, that variety bloomed for such a short time that its symbolism never felt quite right.
So Xianyu had chosen peach blossoms.
She had seemed delighted when she discovered a peach tree on the battlefield, and had even broken off a flowering branch to bring him.
Sure enough, I need to keep sending Yingxing money and push him to work overtime.
While thinking about sending Yingxing money,