Seeing her best friend's indignant expression, Jian Shuyue widened her phoenix eyes innocently and asked in surprise, "What's gotten into you? I only asked whether you knew this poem. Why such a big reaction? What's all this about filthy women and lecherous men? Doesn't your conscience hurt, slandering innocent people like that?"
Faced with this shameless attempt to turn the tables, Tian Tian sneered. "Oh, spare me. Why would you bring up that poem out of nowhere?"
Lawyer Jian replied calmly, "What I mainly wanted to convey was that, on an autumn evening, Zhou Yi escaped the clamor of the city and was drawn to a place where chrysanthemums bloomed. He lingered there, utterly enchanted, revealing his special love for chrysanthemums. Of course, it also expresses admiration for their steadfast character, enduring wind and frost before finally withering."
Tian Tian froze for a moment, then got angry-and that was about all she could do. Are you seriously giving me a poetry analysis here?
That little mouth kept rattling away, every word pure nonsense. Too bad she wasn't Zhou Yi. Otherwise, she would have worked Jian Shuyue over until she was gasping for breath, unable to get a single complete sentence out!
"All right, enough joking. How could a woman as proper and innocent as me ever do anything so improper? We've been best friends for years. Don't you know me by now?" Jian Shuyue said solemnly.
Oh, give it a rest, Tian Tian thought. The first smutty novel I ever read came from under your bed. The first porn flick I ever watched was one you dragged me into watching with you. You tricked me out of my first kiss, too. And my... Forget it. Any more and I'll start crying. Between her buddy and her best friend, she was