After being warmed, the liquor carried only a faint Snow Maple Fragrance upon entry. Its taste was crisp and sweet, with barely any trace of alcohol.
Rather than liquor, it was perhaps more fitting to call it a beverage.
Setting down his cup, Luo Chuan let out a long breath and subconsciously looked toward Yao Ziyan beside him.
Perhaps because she had been drinking, a faint flush colored her cheeks. Beneath the lights, her long lashes cast interwoven shadows, while her violet eyes shone as brilliantly as stars.
The surrounding customers' conversations quietly drifted away, leaving only distant, indistinct sounds reaching his ears, lending everything a dreamlike sense of unreality.
Yao Ziyan noticed Luo Chuan's gaze. She turned to look at him and blinked lightly. "Boss?"
The voices surged back like a tide, the lights remaining soft and bright, the air brimming with the fragrance of food.
Luo Chuan gave a light cough and looked elsewhere. "It's nothing."
Yao Ziyan laughed, like rain clearing on a spring morning.
"I want some too!" Xuanque protested as she looked at her empty cup.
"No." Gu Yunxi refused decisively. "You can't drink this."
She clearly remembered Murong Haitang's warning before they had come: if Xuanque were allowed to drink, the consequences would be extremely serious.
Not long ago, after she had just awakened, she had secretly drunk Fan Chengtian's treasured Jade Dew, turning all of Lingyun Academy upside down for quite some time.
Xuanque gave a dissatisfied hum and could only hug her Cola and gulp it down with loud glug glug glug sounds.
Shinkai Seiko wore a thoughtful expression. Perhaps the scene before her had reminded her of certain things.
Just as she was lost in thought, someone beside her tapped her shoulder. "What are you thinking about?"
"Some... things about movies."