Hua Hua's words were like a thorned sword stabbing into Xia Xingchen's heart.
The feeling? Four words — excruciatingly sour.
And naturally, Hua Hua noticed the change in Xia Xingchen's expression. "Sister Xingchen, what's wrong? What's with that look?"
"No, Hua Hua, don't you dislike men? Don't you have androphobia? Didn't you say that besides Senior Daoist Zhaixing, there wasn't a single good man in the world?" Xia Xingchen fired off questions one after another.
"I used to think that way, but after meeting Chu Feng, I realized how narrow-minded I'd been."
"Sister Xingchen is right — Chu Feng really is different." As she spoke, Hua Hua smiled and gave Xia Xingchen an approving gesture.
"You girl — Chu Feng is Jie Ranqing's son. If anything, he's a generation younger than us. Isn't that like an old cow chewing on tender grass?" Xia Xingchen said.
"But Sister, weren't you just saying that since there's no one in our generation, we could look towards..."
"Oh — Sister Xingchen didn't finish, but I bet you were going to say we could look towards someone younger, right?"
"Well, if I'm an old cow chewing on tender grass, then so are you, Sister." Hua Hua grinned mischievously.
"You — how did you know I was going to say that?" Xia Xingchen asked.
"I not only knew you were going to say that — I also know that Sister already has someone in her heart."
"And that someone is Chu Feng," Hua Hua said.
Hearing this, Xia Xingchen's face instantly turned crimson.
"See, see — your face is all red! Would you dare say I'm wrong?" Hua Hua leaned in closer.
At this point, Xia Xingchen was somewhat conflicted, but she finally said: "You girl — how could you tell?"
"Is that hard to figure out? Anybody could see it."
"I've never seen you be so enthusiastic toward any man the way you are with Chu Feng," Hua Hua said.
Hearing Hua Hua say that, the delicate contours of Xia Xingchen's face blossomed into a radiant smile once more. She pulled Hua Hua into a hug. "Haha! So when you said you liked Chu Feng, you were just trying to scare me? You girl — since when did you learn to be so bad?"
But Hua Hua shook her head. "Liking Chu Feng — that part was serious."
"What?!" Xia Xingchen shoved her away. "You girl — how, how, how could you fall for Chu Feng?"
"Because he saved me too. He gave me my life. So what if I offer myself to him?" Hua Hua said.
This left Xia Xingchen speechless.
The process by which she and Hua Hua had both developed feelings for Chu Feng was strikingly similar. If anyone could understand Hua Hua, it was her.
"Are we sisters about to become love rivals?" Xia Xingchen said.
"Why would we need to be love rivals? We can keep being sisters — you be the senior wife, and I'll be the junior one," Hua Hua laughed.
Hearing this, Xia Xingchen — who had been feeling melancholy and serious — couldn't help but laugh again. "Is that really okay?"
"Why wouldn't it be? With our relationship, would we really fight over jealousy?" Hua Hua said.
"Well, I certainly wouldn't be jealous of you. But who knows about you?" Xia Xingchen wasn't so sure.
"Of course I wouldn't either. We'll be good sisters forever," Hua Hua said.
"Alright then, it's a deal. Good sisters for life — and we're not allowed to fall out over a man," Xia Xingchen said.
"It's a deal. But it's kind of funny — it's as if we've both already married Chu Feng. What if he doesn't even want the two of us?" Hua Hua said.
"Well… that possibility can't be ruled out, haha." Xia Xingchen laughed.
Hearing this, Hua Hua laughed too.
But their laughter carried a trace of worry.
Under normal circumstances, these two sisters were incomparably confident.
Countless men coveted them, yet they wouldn't spare any of them a second glance.
Xia Xingchen in particular — unlike Hua Hua, who more often than not concealed her face, she walked openly throughout the vast cultivation world.
She was a universally acknowledged beauty and genius.
Setting aside outsiders, how many people within the Azure Firmament Immortal Sect had fallen for her? Even the sect master of the Azure Firmament Immortal Sect — a being of overwhelming strength and authority — had set his sights on her.
But she had turned them all down.