Yan Xianjue's first instinct was to throw the person off.
Then his eyes were covered.
"Guess who I am?"
Shen Fangli's cheerful voice, like a mountain stream, rang out behind him.
Yan Xianjue immediately stopped himself, turning just in time to support her bottom.
He gave it a light pat. "You're this mischievous? Aren't you afraid I'll really throw you off?"
"Hehe." Shen Fangli's hands slid down from his eyes and looped around his neck instead.
"You wouldn't." She sounded far more certain of that than Yan Xianjue himself.
That was simply how much she trusted him. Yan Xianjue would recognize her immediately, and he would never hurt her.
Yan Xianjue snorted softly, as though he was quite pleased with her answer.
As a reward, he hoisted her a little higher. After a moment, he hesitantly asked, "Did you gain some weight?"
To his surprise, when this taboo subject for girls was mentioned, Shen Fangli not only didn't get angry but happily shared, "I got taller!"
"A full thirteen millimeters!!!"
Yan Xianjue didn't even need to think to convert that number. It was only about a centimeter, yet she was so delighted.
Shen Fangli puffed out her cheeks and poked his back. "You didn't even notice when we were in Beijing."
Yan Xianjue: "..."
He truly hadn't noticed. There was already more than twenty centimeters between Shen Fangli's height and his; shortening that gap by one centimeter really made little difference to him.
But he couldn't say that, so he argued, "I just forgot to ask."
Shen Fangli couldn't be bothered to expose him and merely swung her legs in the air.
"But I stopped drinking that traditional medicine."
Yan Xianjue neither agreed nor disagreed. "My mom and sister only drank it for a while too."
Shen Fangli nodded. Mother