The second round ended with Lu Xiaoxiao rolling a four and Ji Yunhuai a five.
"Ah! Such a narrow loss! So close!" Lu Xiaoxiao shook her head regretfully, then played it safe. "I choose truth."
"Sure."
Ji Yunhuai gave a slight nod, and when he spoke again, his tone grew a little more serious. "What's your favorite romantic setting?"
Lu Xiaoxiao, who had already braced herself for a difficult question, was at a loss. "...?"
"Huh??? That's all you're asking?"
Lu Xiaoxiao scratched her head, momentarily bewildered. She racked her brains for quite a while before answering awkwardly, "Hmm... actually, this question is still a little tough for me. I don't usually go out of my way to think about romantic stuff."
"If I had to say... um... um... a Ferris wheel under the stars? A colorful sea of flowers? Rowing out to the middle of a mirror-smooth lake and then just lazing around...?"
"Those... those are pretty romantic, right? I guess."
By the end, Lu Xiaoxiao was starting to feel embarrassed. The scenes she had described seemed rather cliché, but she really wasn't making things up to brush him off. Her imagination in this particular area was simply a little lacking.
Afraid Ji Yunhuai might think she was deliberately giving him absurd answers, Lu Xiaoxiao covered her mouth and gave a few dry coughs, then offered a timid explanation. "Okay... they might sound a little ordinary, but I really haven't seen many things you could describe as 'romantic'!"
"You know I'm not the Lu Family's biological daughter. I spent a lot of my childhood at the Orphanage, and orphans couldn't just go out to play whenever they wanted. At most, we got to look at some wildflowers in the backyard?"
"After I was taken in by the Lu Family,