"Master, are you referring to 'silver' as in silver coins?"
"Yes," Chu Nanli nodded in confirmation before she realized something was amiss and glanced at him with suspicion, "What character did you think it was just now?"
Chu Yi's face turned beet red in an instant, his eyes darting away as he stiffened.
Unaccustomed to lying, he was so embarrassed that he couldn't utter a word for a long time.
Chu Nanli scrutinized his expression, her mind racing swiftly, and she mentally flipped through dozens of characters with the same pronunciation, her expression growing increasingly bizarre.
"Forget it, that name isn't very auspicious anyway. Let's change it."
A grown-up's dignity involves seeing through things without pointing them out, giving others...ahem, primarily oneself, some face.
Chu Nanli kept a composed appearance, but internally, she felt the awkward urge to scratch a wall.
Indeed, she just wasn't cut out for naming.
