Although the Ice Empress had left the rooftop, Jiang Zhen did not immediately climb down.
He still sat on the roof tiles with his arms around his knees, gazing at the bright moon on the horizon. A gentle smile lingered at the corners of his mouth as he savored the clumsy yet utterly sincere kiss he and the Ice Empress had just shared.
That cold touch, which had gradually begun to melt, seemed to still linger on his lips.
However, just as he was immersed in the sweetness of having established a relationship for the first time, the air beside him rippled slightly. A cool, otherworldly figure, like a celestial maiden beneath the moon, silently landed beside him.
Jiang Zhen suddenly came to his senses and turned his head in astonishment. "???"
He saw that the Snow Empress had appeared from who knew where and was standing quietly at his side.
Under the moonlight, her white robes outshone snow, and her beauty was peerless. Yet her ice-blue eyes were no longer as calm and undisturbed as usual. Instead, they held an extremely complicated mix of emotions.
There was intense curiosity, a hint of gossip from watching the show, and a trace of understanding. There was even...
A faint, almost imperceptible emotion whose nature even she herself had never bothered to investigate.
Had she... actually been hiding nearby the whole time?
Jiang Zhen looked at the Snow Empress's expression, which seemed to see through everything, and immediately felt his scalp prickle.
The Snow Empress said nothing. She merely used those ice-blue eyes that could see through the human heart to size Jiang Zhen up meaningfully from head to toe, as though reassessing the man who had just "spirited away" her companion.
Under the bright moonlight, the atmosphere on the rooftop became