Various images of Zhu Juntang surfaced in Liu Chang'an's mind: her furious glare when she made a fuss, her impassioned arguments when spouting nonsense, her head held high and hands on her hips as she loudly defended herself after making a mistake, her bawling when she got spanked, and her brazen insistence that she was right even after being caught lying. Most annoying of all was the sight of her turning into a little lamb, bouncing around while thinking herself the cutest creature in the universe.
As for all the ways she courted disaster, there were simply too many. Gathering them all together would easily cause mental and physical discomfort, so Liu Chang'an created a new folder in his mind and sealed away those audio-visual memories.
Liu Chang'an himself had not thought things through very well this time, either.
The greatest harm of gossip lay in how it spread. Passed from mouth to mouth, it gradually turned into something utterly bizarre. Without that process of transmission, gossip was merely the delivery of a piece of information.
So, by directly getting Bai Hui involved, Liu Chang'an had delivered the information that he had given Yan Qingcheng skincare products straight to her, avoiding the possibility of it becoming gossip through people like Tong Xi passing it along.
Who would have thought that Bai Hui would not become the final recipient of the information? Instead, she had taken Tong Xi's place in the gossip chain and started spreading the story to Zhu Juntang!
Who knew what Bai Hui had told Zhu Juntang.
She had probably embellished things, talking about the warmth in Liu Chang'an's eyes at the time, the concern in his tone when he mentioned Yan Qingcheng, then wondering whether, because of Professor Liu Jianshe, Liu Chang'an might see Yan Qingcheng as