Early the next morning, when Gu Linyuan stepped out of the Ice Palace, he immediately sensed that something was off.
Ice Empress stood on the snow outside the Ice Palace, wearing a short skirt completely unlike the one she had worn yesterday.
The hem barely covered the middle of her thighs, its edge trimmed with a ring of fine ice-blue fur that swayed gently with her movements.
She stood slightly sideways, as if admiring the distant snowy scenery, yet her emerald eyes kept darting toward Gu Linyuan, shining like a pair of cat's eyes hidden in the snow.
When she noticed Gu Linyuan looking at her, she quickly withdrew her gaze as if startled, then stretched lazily as though nothing had happened.
The hem of her skirt rose a little higher with the motion, revealing a section of thigh flushed faintly red from the cold, dazzlingly pale beneath the gray-white daylight.
"Big Brother Linyuan, you're awake?"
"You won't be too cold at night, will you? How about I get you an ice silkworm silk robe?"
Ice Empress turned around, stuck out her tongue, and walked toward him.
As she spoke, she drew closer, her boots crunching softly over the snow.
Gu Linyuan stared at her obviously strange outfit and froze for a moment.
The clothing itself was not strange, but seeing it on Ice Empress was indeed rather strange.
He knew that Ice Empress should know quite a bit about humans.
In the past, she probably would have looked down on all these human twists and turns.
But now, she had even put on a short skirt.
"I'm not cold."
"Dressed like that, you look like the colder one."
Gu Linyuan smiled faintly.
Ice Empress blinked, lowered her head to look at her exposed legs, then raised her eyes to