"What are you shouting about?" Nina turned her head in panic, avoiding his scorching gaze, and said hastily, "My age... I am already Xiangluan's grandmother, how can you be so ignorant of manners?"
"Sister."
Bai Qinchen chuckled lightly, his palm naturally resting on her rounded and slightly trembling shoulder, and said, "We are both Deities now, our lifespans are endless. Age is nothing more than a string of meaningless numbers, isn't it?"
"You were born so peerlessly beautiful, years have not left a trace of marks on your face, and instead added a voluptuous charm that ordinary women lack." Bai Qinchen leaned close to her ear, half-teasingly and half-seriously, "Looking at a face like this, how can I not call you sister? Could it be... do you want me to call you younger sister?"
"You... you bad seed, you truly are a scoundrel..."
Nina was overcome with shame and annoyance. Hearing the word "younger sister" made her heart leap in fright, and on that well-maintained, gorgeous face, a blush had already spread from her cheeks to her snow-white neck.
Having been widowed for many years, how had she ever heard such flattery that was both frivolous yet direct and fervent? Especially coming from the mouth of such a young and handsome man.
She wanted to reach out and push him away, but those soft, feeble palms pressed against Bai Qinchen's chest not only failed to serve the slightest purpose of pushing him back, but instead felt like coquetry.
"Sister, you are soaked all through. If you don't change out of them soon, you really will catch a cold."
Saying this and not waiting for Nina to make any further reaction, Bai Qinchen's hands, which were still considered well-behaved a moment before, began to boldly stroke her lightly, skillfully finding the