Setting aside the accusatory calls from Ji Xi and the other victims, this honeymoon trip had undoubtedly been a great success.
Shen Fangli held hands with Yan Xianjue and walked backward, her words and expression both conveying her reluctance to part. "I don't want to go back to school."
Yan Xianjue blurted out without thinking, "That was my line."
Only after the words left his mouth did he pause, then laugh. "Fine. If your dad finds out I led his good little daughter astray, he might just want to break my legs."
Shen Fangli didn't believe him. In front of elders, Yan Xianjue was much better at playing the obedient one than she was.
She let go of his hand and nudged up her fluffy hat, which Yan Xianjue had insisted she wear before they left.
The final stop of their trip had been to see the aurora in the polar region. Both of them wore puffy down jackets that made them look like loaves of bread, with hats that somewhat restricted their vision.
Yan Xianjue reached out and pressed a hand over Shen Fangli's head. The hat she had just pushed up a little was immediately shoved back down.
Shen Fangli exhaled a cloud of white mist, as though what she had on her head was not a hat, but the unbearable weight of life.
She protested weakly, "I don't think it's that cold."
Yan Xianjue remained unmoved.
Fine. Shen Fangli easily understood the look in his eyes, but she still complained with some distaste, "I'm honestly scared I'll get heatstroke. I wouldn't even know how to explain it to people."
If she said she had gotten heatstroke while watching the aurora in the polar region because her boyfriend had dressed her too warmly, they would probably send her