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The fierce night wind grazed their official robes. She stood on the city wall, looking down at the moat below. Winter had arrived, and the river water emitted a chilling, bone-piercing cold as it rolled up in waves, completely different from when the two of them had jumped in before. It felt like it would freeze a person to death...

"Want to jump?" he asked calmly, as if he were asking her whether she had eaten dinner.

She turned her head, half-opening her dazed eyes to suddenly eye him with a smile. Grabbing his lapels with both hands like a cat half-scratching and half-clawing, she pulled him toward herself, her lips pouting and half-puckered in a provocation right before the tip of his nose. "Are you going to jump with me?"

"Mn. But I don't guarantee that the person you want to see will come back." She was telling the truth, after all; his acting skills were truly not all that great. Whenever she wanted to, she could tear down his disguise and make him revert to his true form.

"Are you seriously going to jump with me? Don't you think I'm just drunk and acting wild?"

"You are indeed drunk." But this foolishness was something he was willing to accompany her through to the very end.

"I'm not drunk! If I were drunk, I'd be telling you right now that this time we're filling in the plot gaps Young Master imagined. Screw the Cabinet and its historians; take me away right now. Let's elope, anywhere at all will do."

"..."

"If I were drunk, I'd be asking you right now, Lord Li, do you really not know how much I've been coveting you? Have you finished eating your own vinegar yet? I hate your icy appearance. Can't you just