"Well, Ian Yan! Just you wait!" Princess Quinn Xiao stormed off in a fury.
Jenna Summers hurried after her.
Lucia Lu vanished instantly from where she stood and intercepted Jenna in a secluded spot.
"What do you want?" Jenna glared at her, eyes full of hostility.
"Divine Lady Jenna, don't you think you owe me an explanation? Why did you leave that forged note to frame me?" Lucia asked.
Jenna said, "I didn't do it on purpose. I just didn't want Ian Yan to find me, so I randomly wrote a name to throw him off, that's all!"
"Random? That's all?" Lucia raised an eyebrow. "If Ian Yan had handed your note to Lord Hades, he would have come straight to my house demanding answers! The two clans might have become enemies! And I, Lucia Lu, would be a laughingstock across the realms! To you, that's just 'random'? 'That's all'?"
Jenna turned away, refusing to meet her eyes. "In that situation, how could I have thought of all that? Besides, nothing happened in the end, right? I already apologized—what more do you want?"
Lucia Lu: "And just now? Why did you side with the princess to attack us?"
"I was just telling the truth." Jenna looked up and met her gaze, acting as if she was perfectly justified. "What, does everyone have to flatter you? Can't you handle a little honesty?"
Lucia Lu took a deep breath. "Divine Lady Jenna, enemies are better untied than tied. I just get the feeling you have something against me.
But I honestly can't remember ever offending you.
If I recall correctly, we've only met once—when you came to the Spirit Alliance for treatment, right? Is there some misunderstanding between us?"
Jenna said, "You're overthinking it."
"Am I?"
"About Ian Yan, I really did wrong you." Jenna bowed deeply. "I'm apologizing again—is that enough?"
Lucia Lu said nothing.
"If there's nothing else, I'll be going now." Jenna turned and left.
Lucia Lu shook her head and prepared to head back.
As she turned around, she saw Luna Lian.
"Lian-Lian?"
"Sis, why did you go after her?" Luna Lian was worried about Lucia, so she had followed her out.
"There's no such thing as hatred without a reason in this world," Lucia said. "I just wanted to ask her why she's always picking a fight with me."
Luna Lian thought for a moment, frowning. "Could it be..."
"Could it be what?"
"Back then, when you returned from outside, you went to see her. After you left, I brought her medicine and overheard her Divine Attendant whispering outside the door. The attendant said they'd always thought Divine Lady Jenna was the prettiest in the Divine Realm, but after seeing you, she just seemed ordinary."
"So?" Lucia was confused.
"She might have overheard that remark," Luna said. "Later, I heard that the Divine Attendant who said it died under mysterious circumstances! I didn't think much of it before, but now, putting it all together, maybe she's jealous of you?"
"Ha! No way, right?"
"Why not? Honestly, it's perfectly normal for people to be jealous of you," Luna Lian said.
"It's 'normal'?"
Luna Lian nodded. "Just your looks alone crush every other woman in the Three Realms and Ten Wilds!
Your cultivation is so high, your medical skills are already perfected! And you're the Lu clan's only daughter!
If anyone is 'favored by heaven,' it's you."
Lucia Lu pinched Luna Lian's chubby cheek between two fingers. "Am I really that great?"
"You are!" Luna Lian protested through the pain, but insisted, "Sometimes I get jealous of you too!"
"Oh, really?" Lucia pinched even harder.
"But most of the time, I'm just happy to have such an amazing big sister!" Luna said, flashing a sweet smile.