Eating beneath the wind and rain, they crossed towering mountains and great rivers, leaped over cliffs, traversed deserts, and climbed snowy peaks. After passing through one savage, perilous place after another, Su Chen and Hu Liena finally reached a Small Town.
"We're finally here."
Hu Liena surveyed the Small Town ahead.
The town was small. Even before they entered, they could sense a peculiar chill emanating from the passersby, as though an evil aura were rising in a murky haze and shrouding the town.
Half a month. After traveling nonstop for half a month, Hu Liena and Su Chen had finally reached this Small Town.
"Come to think of it, does this count as weathering wind and rain together?" Su Chen teased.
"Can I take that to mean you're courting me?" Hu Liena cast him a flirtatious glance and smiled alluringly.
Su Chen froze briefly, his expression going blank for an instant. Hu Liena really is an enchantress. Even he had nearly fallen captive to her gaze.
"If you don't mind sharing a husband with Xiao Xue, courting you isn't entirely out of the question," Su Chen teased with a smile.
"Sharing a husband? Aren't you afraid Teacher will snip that thing of yours off?" Hu Liena joked with a smile, her face flushing slightly.
"Teacher wouldn't do that. If she snipped it off, what happiness would Xiao Xue have left? All right, let's go in!" Su Chen said with a smile.
This was far from the first conversation of this sort between Hu Liena and Su Chen.
Over the past half month of braving the wind and rain, Hu Liena and Su Chen had grown closer. Hu Liena was fairly open-minded, and Su Chen was hardly conservative either. Whenever boredom struck, they chatted and teased each other, finding a