Her beauty could topple cities, her figure curved in all the right places, neither too slender nor too full, her jade-like body tall and graceful, her white clothes outshining snow. She stood there in the doorway, right before them, yet she seemed like a snow lotus blooming quietly atop a snowy peak no one could climb.
Her eyes, nose, face... her features were the very picture of gentle softness. Yet her bearing turned all that gentleness into cool aloofness. She was right before you, but you still felt that she was an immortal maiden dwelling among the clouds.
She was so far above it all, so pure and transcendent, spotless from within to without, untouched by a speck of dust. Even if the mundane world filled the skies with filth, none of it could stain her purity.
"To think such a beautiful woman existed in this world!"
Even Gao Qiao'er, who had always prided herself on her beauty, could not help being momentarily dazzled.
In this vast world, peerless beauties were beyond counting, and Gao Qiao'er herself was exceptionally beautiful. Yet women who reached Zuo Xiaonian's level were as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns. As for someone possessing both these looks and this bearing, Gao Qiao'er could tell at first sight: there was only one under heaven!
Gao Qiao'er was ordinarily quite proud of her appearance. Even in Fenghai City, people often praised her as Fenghai's greatest beauty.
Yet the moment she saw Zuo Xiaonian, a feeling of inferiority, of being ashamed of her own plainness, rose naturally from her heart.
It was roughly this feeling: she could not bear comparison; the gulf was far too wide. She could only gaze up at that lofty mountain, unable even to feel jealousy...
Could an ant possibly envy a dinosaur?