Manman's mind began to wander: if her brother were to walk with Sister Bai Lu, would it also be like this? If so, Sister Bai Lu is truly pitiable.
"What's wrong?" Seeing her lag behind, Jun Ye stopped, turned around, and watched as she crawled over step by step like a turtle.
The use of 'crawled' is because they were currently walking on an uphill path.
His scrutinizing gaze paused on her face that had become flushed after walking such a long distance.
"Nothing, let's keep going." She gave him a sidelong glance. Today she was risking it all to accompany this gentleman, no matter what tricks he had up his sleeve.
He had turned back to go on, but after she took a couple of steps to follow, he suddenly turned back again, this time quickly squatting down and reaching for the sock on one side of her foot.
