"Heh, is being big really a good thing?" Ruan Lan scoffed to herself. "Superficial, far too superficial!"
She was deeply disappointed in Xu Lai's aesthetic taste. As the ancients said, a mountain needn't be high; it is famous if an immortal resides there. To think he doesn't even understand such a simple truth. His vision is truly shallow.
「Elsewhere.」
Bai Xue seemed to sense something. She pushed open the door to the back courtyard and walked toward Ruan Lan. Her clear eyes twinkled as she mustered her courage and asked, "Excuse me… what is your relationship to Daoist Qingfeng?"
During the ten days that Bai Xue had stayed in Haitang Court, Ruan Lan had always been hostile toward her, either glaring or snorting disdainfully. Thinking that this was the abode of the Supreme Emperor, Bai Xue had always yielded and never talked back even once. Now, after being stared at by Ruan Lan yet again, she could no longer contain her curiosity and timidly spoke up.
