Watching Chen Xi's shoulders twitch, Lin Yue calmly gave her most honest assessment.
"You look way too sleazy. Don't you realize that yourself?"
"I don't." As if deliberately trying to provoke her, Chen Xi shrugged her shoulders several more times.
"Like some perverted sexual harasser." Lin Yue's single remark made Chen Xi cough uncontrollably.
"Cough, cough. Isn't that going too far as a personal attack?"
Chen Xi stared at her speechlessly, trying to get an explanation.
"It's fine. That doesn't count as a personal attack." Lin Yue paused, tilting her head. "More like telling the truth?"
"If you keep slandering me, I'm calling the police."
"Go ahead. Let's see who listens to you."
Seeing the two fall into their usual bickering again, Gu Yu sighed and silently tightened the ropes around Gu Yao and Charles.
"Young ladies, how about we head back first?"
Gu Yu suggested this as she looked at the crowd in the distance, which had gathered again out of curiosity.
Chen Xi crossed her arms and glanced at the scene outside the street before snorting. "Fine. I'll let you off this once, Sister Lin Yue, for Gu Yu's sake."
"Heh." Lin Yue gave a humorless laugh.
"Mommy."
A soft call rang beside her ear, and only then did Gu Yu realize that Zhu Li had somehow slipped over and tightly hugged her shoulder.
Zhu Li's call was like the last straw that broke the camel's back.
"Ugh—" Gu Yu let out a helpless wail.
Charles and Gu Yao woke up a little sooner than Gu Yu had expected.
By the time the group had finished a meal, the two were already showing signs of waking.
Of course, even though they had regained consciousness, the injuries left behind from freezing their souls would not heal anytime soon.