Remembering all the nonsense he had said when he bullied Her Majesty the Queen for being innocent and easy to fool as a child,
Under everyone's strange, peculiar gazes, Fang Ran instantly broke out in a cold sweat. Feeling that his image would become beyond saving if this continued, he hurriedly explained:
"No. What I meant back then was that you should still have a successful career first."
"Isn't that what you meant?"
Then, hearing Ling speak in such a pitiful, guilt-inducing tone—"Was Fang Ran lying to me?"—he panicked again and forced a sweaty smile as he coaxed her:
"No, Ling, thirty is actually just a vague number! It means you can only fall in love and get married after growing up to become a real man!"
"Oho~ Becoming a real man, huh? By your standards, thirty probably wouldn't be enough."
For the nth time, Ming Ling realized that everyone knew something she did not. Already annoyed at the "source" of it all, she spoke up with a mocking jab.
And what kind of rigidly traditional mindset was that?
Contrary to the eye-roll in her heart, Gou Yu could not help laughing helplessly when he heard that, remembering his previous "friend's troubles."
How should he put it? That really was a captain-like way of thinking.
"Eh, so that's what Junior thought? I never knew."
"He's been like that since he was little."
After finally soothing Ling and making her believe he had not lied to her, Xia Yao deliberately teased him with a light laugh, while Fang Xiaoran mercilessly exposed his past without hesitation.
"No, I wasn't talking about myself!"
Just as he realized that the more he explained, the worse it got, and that he could not clear things up at all,
Fang Ran saw Tang Bing holding her