Monday, at dusk
"Caroline, Caroline, don't walk so fast. I really have something important to tell you."
At the villa's front gate, Tiandao grabbed Caroline's wrist, finally stopping her from heading back.
Caroline had stopped, but she did not look kindly upon Tiandao.
Tiandao and Chen Xing's little moves over the past few days had left her with quite a few grievances against him.
Unless Tiandao took the initiative to explain the reason behind it all,
she absolutely would not forgive him so easily.
That said, beneath Caroline's seemingly indifferent expression, there was still a trace of anticipation.
She clearly thought that Tiandao had suddenly stopped her this time to explain the "little secret" between him and Chen Xing during this period.
But Caroline was soon disappointed.
Because what Tiandao said next was not about the "little secret" between him and Chen Xing.
It was about this Guard Mission.
If it had been before, given her reputation for calmness and rationality,
whenever Tiandao voluntarily brought up something unrelated to the mission,
not only would she not listen seriously, she might even turn around and reprimand him for being a little more serious.
But for some reason, today,
when she heard that Tiandao had sought her out because of the "mission,"
Caroline could not help feeling a little disappointed.
Though such a feeling was rare, it had indeed appeared.
Yet Tiandao seemed not to notice any of this, simply explaining why he had come to find Caroline.
"So, Caroline, because of that Young Miss Isabelle's sudden caprice, we'll need to take a day off from school tomorrow and scout out the places she intends to visit in advance."
"After all, both Jellyfish Amusement Park and the Sunken Ship Grand Restaurant are places with extremely dense crowds."
"If we don't familiarize ourselves