Ji Yanzhi's Adam's apple bobbed hard. He pressed his tongue against the roof of his mouth twice before he managed to suppress the laughter welling up inside him.
But the moment he spoke, the corners of his lips still tugged upward uncontrollably.
"If you hadn't told me, I'd never have known you were this attracted to me."
Ji Ting blinked in confusion. "Of course I'm attracted to you. Otherwise, none of those flutters I feel for you would make sense."
"Then what do you like most about me?"
Ji Ting answered almost without hesitation. "The real you."
Ji Yanzhi wasn't satisfied with that answer. "But I've always been real with you. Surely you weren't attracted to me right from the start?"
"But I didn't understand you at first. Over time, your ontological essence achieved perfect resonance on an ontological level with my a priori archetype of erotic desire."
Ji Yanzhi hadn't understood a word of the latter half, but he quickly latched on to "perfect resonance."
"Since I'm so wonderful in your eyes, then..."
"What?"
When a romance was too sweet, people started asking childish questions. "Then what if Zong Ling and the others had chosen me to seduce you? Would you take the bait?"
The question was so strange that Ji Ting couldn't help frowning. "There is no such what-if."
Ji Yanzhi refused to let it go. "Let's just imagine it. Say it happened in another dimension."
Ji Ting found this hypothetical rather difficult to envision. After thinking for a long time, he failed to find a standard answer and instead found himself following Ji Yanzhi's peculiar train of thought.
Ji Ting lowered his eyes, hiding the amusement in them. "Mm, I gave this some serious thought. I think I would."
Ji Yanzhi's breathing stopped for half a beat.