"What's wrong, Hela?" Keke asked, noticing Hela's dazed expression.
"Why do you blush when you see those two?" Hela turned to Coco and directly asked Keke the question that had been on her mind.
puff--!
This caused the flour he had just eaten to spray out, landing directly on Ye Ciqing's face.
Ye Ciqing:...
Keke's face instantly turned bright red. "No, no, Hela, Sister Hela... I, I, I'm not blushing because of those two!"
"Haha." Looking at Keke who kept making excuses and Ye Ciqing had been sprayed with flour, Ye Yiqing couldn't help but chuckle twice, his four tiger teeth appearing and disappearing.
Then he took out a few sheets of toilet paper from his pocket and handed them to Ye Ciqing.
It was only then that Keke noticed the flour she had sprayed on Ye Ciqing's face, and she instantly panicked.
"I'm sorry, I... I didn't mean to, I... I'll wipe it for you..." Keke reached out, flustered, trying to wipe Ye Ciqing.
"No need..." Ye Ciqing waved his hand and wiped the flour off his face with a tissue. "You really are something, why are you so excited? It's not like I can't tell you like me~" Ye Ciqing looked at Keke with a mischievous smile.
Keke's two little hands were clasped tightly together, her head lowered, her face as red as an apple, and her eyes occasionally glanced at Hela with a hint of resentment.
Keke was so embarrassed she wanted to disappear into the ground.
"Hmm? Speaking of Hela, you have a pretty high threshold for laughter. My brother is already laughing, but you're not." Ye Ciqing teased Hela, who had a blank expression.
This piqued Keke's curiosity; she indeed seemed to have never seen Hela show any expression.
"You always seem so aloof, but I always get the feeling you're a bit dull," Ye Ciqing said with a smile, before Ye Yiqing flicked his head.
"Oops!"
"Don't talk nonsense."
"Okay, okay." Ye Ciqing covered his head and puffed out his cheeks.
Hela thought for a moment, then slowly forced a very stiff smile.
"Hey! Never mind, you'd better stop smiling." Seeing Hela's eerie smile, Ye Ciqing quickly stopped her, and even Keke nodded in agreement.
Hela has returned to her expressionless face.
Seeing them laughing and joking, Ye Yiqing smiled again.
Just then, a young girl, with slightly heavy steps, sat down next to Ye Yiqing.
"Oh?! Aren't you Han Xiaoxiao?" Ye Ciqing recognized Han Xiaoxiao at a glance.
Han Xiaoxiao nodded.
Keke looked up and, after seeing Han Xiaoxiao face, felt she looked somewhat familiar.
"Miss Hela, doesn't she look familiar? I feel like I've seen her somewhere before."
Hela ignored her and continued eating, her head down.
"Speaking of which, why didn't you run away with me back then? You didn't look down on others like Scarface, did you?" Ye Ciqing felt angry just thinking about Yan Wusheng, and he looked like he was gritting his teeth.
"No," Han Xiaoxiao, "I just don't want to hold them back."
Ye Ciqing instantly rendered speechless, feeling as if he had punched a piece of cotton.
"No, you're very capable, there's no need to worry like that," Ye Yiqing said gently.
Han Xiaoxiao stared straight at Ye Yiqing.
"What's wrong?" Ye Yiqing asked, somewhat puzzled by the stare.
"Um..." Han Xiaoxiao said, somewhat hesitantly, "Could you teach me your swordsmanship?"
"Oh?!" Ye Ciqing's expression suddenly turned playful.
At this moment, Keke remembered that Han Xiaoxiao was the first person to arrive at the armory besides her and Hela. At the time, Keke thought she was very aloof, but she never expected that she knew the Ye Yiqing brothers.
After hearing Han Xiaoxiao's request and Ye Ciqing's reaction, Keke's curiosity was piqued.
Ye Yiqing froze for a moment while eating, then slowly put down the spoon in her hand.
"I'm sorry, I don't pass on my swordsmanship skills to outsiders," Ye Yiqing said with a smile.
"Please! I'll do anything you ask, as long as you're willing to teach me." Han Xiaoxiao's eyes were filled with urgency and determination.
Hearing Han Xiaoxiao she'd do anything, and then looking at her appearance, Ye Ciqing gave an indescribable smile.
"Seriously?" Ye Yiqing slowly suppressed her smile.
Han Xiaoxiao nodded heavily.
The smile and gentleness on Ye Yiqing's face had vanished, replaced by coldness and seriousness.
This sight startled Keke, causing her to tremble.
Ye Yiqing used his left eye, which wasn't covered by the blindfold, to look Han Xiaoxiao up and down, then spoke coldly.
"Knife skills aren't for disabled people like you to learn, and this isn't a place for disabled people like you."
Keke was shocked. She hadn't expected Ye Yiqing to say such a thing. Such words were undoubtedly extremely damaging to a disabled person.
And that was indeed the case. Upon hearing this, Han Xiaoxiao's body trembled violently, and she lowered her head, her body shaking slightly as if trying to hold back her tears.
"Although I don't know how you got into the training camp, I advise you to face reality and leave here as soon as possible."
Reality is not a novel; reality is cruel, and it won't care for you just because you're disabled.
After saying that, Ye Yiqing picked up her plate and got up to leave.
Ye Ciqing also got up from his seat.
But Ye Yiqing had only taken one step when someone grabbed the hem of his clothes.
He turned around and saw Han Xiaoxiao clutching Ye Yiqing's clothes with her only remaining left hand.
Tears welled up in her eyes, but she held them back, then looked firmly at Ye Yiqing and pleaded:
Please...
Ye Yiqing looked at Han Xiaoxiao's face, Mingming seemed fragile yet incredibly determined, and shook his head slightly.
"I'll think about it." He then pulled his clothes back and walked away.
Meanwhile, Hela finished her meal, watched the Ye Yiqing brothers leave, picked up her plate, and then pulled Keke, who was still in a daze, to follow them.
All that remained was a resentful Han Xiaoxiao.
Keke had been pulled along by Hela, snapped out of her daze and looked at Han Xiaoxiao sitting there all alone. After struggling with her thoughts for a moment, she finally mustered up the courage to call out to her.
"Come on!"
Finally, ignoring that she had heard, he quickly blushed and hid among the three of them.
Han Xiaoxiao was slightly taken aback after hearing Keke's encouragement, but then her eyes became firm again.
"Hey~ Brother, you're so heartless! It's like you dumped me~" Ye Ciqing followed behind Ye Yiqing with a mischievous grin.
"Yeah, you really went a bit too far," Keke complained, though her voice trailed off as she scrolled further down the page.
"Mmm." Hela nodded twice in agreement.
Ye Yiqing smiled helplessly, "There's nothing I can do, I'm doing this for her own good."
After all, someone like her is indeed unsuitable to be Night Star; her limited mobility makes her vulnerable to losing her life.
"Hey~ Brother, you're actually concerned about her? Don't you like Miss Hela anymore?"
As soon as Ye Ciqing finished speaking, Keke's face turned bright red. She glanced at Hela, her heart pounding.
"Don't talk nonsense!" Ye Yiqing gently pushed him, then looked at Hela with a hint of apology.
Seeing Ye Yiqing looking at her, Hela recalled what Feng Xuan had told her: 'Never accept someone's confession.'
"That..."
"I won't be your girlfriend." Before Ye Yiqing could finish speaking, Hela decisively rejected him.
Ye Yiqing:...
Ye Ciqing: ("ಡωಡ")
Keke:⁄(⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄)⁄