"Actually…"
"Yino is just a bit strong-willed; he didn't mean to humiliate you publicly like that…"
In the small cottage on Jinglan Peak, Ruoning lay sprawled by the bedside, puffing her cheeks and muttering, her fingers occasionally poking at her former master, who was curled up under the blankets, refusing to emerge.
This scene was almost too much for Ruoning to handle.
She had come to Jinglan Peak to comfort Chaerin under Dia's guidance, expecting to be rejected or driven away. But when Ruoning knocked on the courtyard gate, no one answered. She cautiously pushed it open, tiptoed into the yard, and found the door to Chaerin's chamber wide open, with Chaerin herself huddled silently under the quilts on the bed, withdrawn and mute.
And then…
That led to Ruoning squatting by the bedside, trying to coax her out.
Who would have thought that the aloof and strict master from the real world would, in her youth, be so upset that she'd curl up in tears?
