"Little Su, you don't mean we're sharing a hotel room tonight, do you?"
Jiang Linyuan asked.
"Why stay in a hotel? We have a place in Yanjing. We can just go there."
Su Muzhi smiled at Jiang Linyuan.
"What? You're not planning to rush off to see Shen Wanyu the moment we arrive, are you?"
"The Department Head gets me on the second day of the New Year. Today, I'm all yours, Little Su."
Jiang Linyuan said with a grin.
"Not just today. And..."
Su Muzhi tapped his chest and gave him a mischievous smile.
"You're going to see her on the second day, but you'll be going with me. I told you, I came to Yanjing to have fun. She'll just be one part of that."
"Sounds like you're planning to monopolize my entire New Year's holiday, Little Su."
"Monopolize? I'm just exercising a right I've never used."
"What right? Even good friends need to keep some distance, Little Su."
If they didn't keep their distance, he'd have to rely on his sixth sense.
"Heh, good friends... Heh."
Su Muzhi didn't correct him.
There was no point. Sometimes, she thought Shen Wanyu's description was pretty apt: an uncivilized ape who liked to play dumb and amuse himself at other people's expense.
Tsk, why did that sound a little like her, too?
"Next time Shen Wanyu calls you an ape, you have to hit back."
"Why?"
"Are you stupid? She's insulting you, and you're asking why?"
"I've always thought of that word as a safeword. Whenever the Department Head calls me an ape, she usually loses her cool and can't take it anymore! It feels like she's surrendering to me!"
"...You've insulted apes."
By the time they reached Yanjing, night had fallen. They'd gotten held up in traffic for a