Suddenly, the sound of something breaking through the water came from the river.
A girl with a graceful, slender figure emerged elegantly from beneath the surface.
She had flawless fair skin, clear, glasslike eyes, and shoulder-length hair.
The moment she broke the surface, she looked like a mermaid descending into the world, breathtakingly beautiful.
"Kexi, what are you looking at? Why are you smiling so much?"
Bai Ningyu slowly stepped onto the riverbank and walked toward Lu Kexi, her alluring bare feet, smooth and fair, treading over sharp gravel.
Her feet looked exceptionally soft and delicate, the skin on her soles seemingly fragile enough to break at a touch. Yet as she casually stepped over the jagged stones, she felt no pain at all and did not suffer even a scratch.
They were feet that looked extremely vulnerable but actually had their defense maxed out.
"Nothing much. I was bored, so I browsed the Night Court's internal forum and found a pretty interesting flamebait post."
Lu Kexi put away her phone and spoke calmly as she looked at Bai Ningyu.
Bai Ningyu looked curious. "What kind of flamebait could make you smile like that?"
In her eyes, Lu Kexi wore a stern expression most of the time, a cool older sister who rarely smiled or joked.
Seeing her smiling so broadly just now had been truly unusual.
Lu Kexi explained casually, "The Night Court recently recruited a new Paranormal Contact."
"He's in his early twenties, and before even officially joining the Night Court, he captured a fully mutated Ratman alive all by himself. A bit like me when I first joined."
"So someone compared him to me and made a flamebait post asking which of us would be stronger at the same age. They had a grand old time pitting