The Extreme Climb No One Else Knew About

"It's so beautiful!" GAKKI-chan stared blankly at the sight before her.

"It's like a dream. It's so romantic." GAKKI-chan said emotionally, "Thank you for bringing me here."

Lin Yuan smiled. "This is only the beginning. Aren't you thanking me a little early?"

"Huh? There are more surprises?"

"Of course!"

Lin Yuan nodded firmly and raised a hand to point at the top of the rock.

"According to local legend, if two people in love can climb Red Heart Rock hand in hand and touch that 'Heart of Light' at sunset, they will receive the blessing of the wind and sand, stay happily together forever, and never part.

Do you want to challenge Red Heart Rock with me?"

Hearing Lin Yuan's words, GAKKI-chan nodded at first, but quickly realized the difficulty. "I don't know how to rock climb, and we didn't bring any climbing equipment."

She wasn't Charlize Theron. She had never undergone climbing training, much less climbed the Great Ice Wall of Yala Snow Mountain with Lin Yuan.

On top of that, they hadn't brought any climbing gear today. In GAKKI-chan's eyes, climbing a hundred-meter-tall boulder like this was simply an impossible challenge.

"Do you trust me?" Lin Yuan asked with a smile.

The familiar scene made GAKKI-chan freeze.

Several years ago, on that big tree behind Kiyomizu-dera Temple in Kyoto, when her legs had gone weak and she couldn't get down, Lin Yuan had said the same thing to her from beneath the tree.

Back then, she hadn't hesitated in the slightest and had shouted, "I trust you!"

Now that they had been through so much together, how could GAKKI-chan hesitate?

She nodded vigorously again and said with certainty, "I trust you!"

"Last time, you climbed alone to pray for me. This time, for the blessing of the two