After returning to the sect years later, she found her junior sister in tears.
Her shiniang explained: Her junior sister had just gone through a breakup.
Her shiniang arranged: Next time you travel around the Nine Provinces, take your junior sister along to help her heal.
Thinking back to their childhood, her junior sister had been gentle, virtuous, obedient, and kind. Who could have the heart to let her down?
Determined to teach the heartless person a lesson, Ji Huaimian set off on a journey through the Nine Provinces with her junior sister.
But her junior sister cried far too easily.
Leave her junior sister alone to celebrate the Qiqiao Festival, and she would cry.
Raise a cup with friends beneath the long night, and her junior sister would cry.
Apologize and give her a gift, and her junior sister would still cry.
But when Ji Huaimian taught her heartless second junior sister a lesson, her junior sister didn't cry.
Blushing, she suddenly leaned in and pressed a desperate kiss to the corner of Ji Huaimian's lips.
Ji Huaimian was thrown into disarray. The Nine Provinces were vast, but she couldn't bring herself to look her junior sister in the eye for many, many days. Yet as autumn passed into winter, she sat daydreaming in an empty courtyard, listening to the wind chimes clinking beneath the eaves, and finally realized:
Her junior sister's affection had been there all along.
After that, her junior sister never cried again.
Instead, she gave Ji Huaimian the cold shoulder, said cutting things to her, ignored her, and even befriended bad people to make her jealous. Only then did Ji Huaimian belatedly realize that her own unconscious soft-heartedness toward her junior sister had also been there all along.
And...
Getting so angry last night that she spent the night with her junior sister had also been a long time coming.
She glanced at the person pretending to sleep beside her and laughed in exasperation. "So you had ulterior motives all along?"
Su Jin silently moved closer and wrapped her arms around Ji Huaimian. She gently brushed the beauty mark at the corner of her eye against Ji Huaimian's jaw, pretending to be aggrieved. "Are you planning to be heartless again, Senior Sister?"
Theme: Sincerity.
