She pulled back the hood adorned with black rabbit-ear hair ornaments, revealing her silver hair tied into a single spiral ponytail.
Perhaps it was the dim glow cast by the everbright lamps, but her eyes looked especially crystalline.
Or perhaps it was the thin mist of tears that added a hazy softness to them.
She simply stood there, as though she did not know what to do.
This was not the first time she had gone through something like this.
She had found him once before, which was why she had come to the Xianzhou so confidently, filled with anticipation for their reunion.
But now that he was truly standing before her, she could not run up to him like an ordinary girl, bouncing with excitement before throwing herself into his arms.
It should have been such a simple thing.
So simple that Aether Editing could have helped her complete the motion with a mere curl of her finger.
But when that thought surfaced, Silver Wolf realized that her body had become stiff.
So stiff that all she could do was foolishly hold out a hand and make a V sign.
Bai Heng saw the gesture and had no idea what it meant.
Still, he tilted his head and made a V sign too, his expression seeming to say:
This should be right, shouldn't it?
Silver Wolf suddenly felt that Bai Heng was an idiot, and so was she... She had actually planned a similar gesture before.
It had been a heart. Maybe her brain had gone stiff too, which was why she had made a V sign at such an inappropriate moment.
But Bai Heng's response made Silver Wolf want to laugh.
She curled the five fingers exposed beyond her fingerless gloves, like a kitten flexing its paw. Then