[Whose little baby-faced wolf is this~]
[Okay, Old Xie has gone dark too. I hereby dub this the demon monkey's descent, all right?]
[Hahahahaha, the freaking demon monkey's descent.]
[Sometimes I really can't imagine what Old Xie will say next, or believe what I just heard.]
[I am watching a dating show... right?]
This time, it took a long while for the corner of Xiao Jingxi's mouth to stop twitching.
He had probably developed a mouth-twitching disorder.
Xie Mi was deliberately playing the fool, making it obvious she didn't want to talk to him. But that was fine. He had anticipated this situation and prepared a backup plan.
After getting rid of Xiao Jingxi, Xie Mi turned back to picking strawberries, only to suddenly feel something beneath her foot. Something seemed vaguely wrong.
Looking down, she saw a rope-a rope tied into a loop, at that.
Wait...
According to the plots of period dramas, whenever someone stepped on a rope like this in a forest, the next second they would...
"Holy shit!"
The rope abruptly tightened, binding her foot before jerking upward, and just like that-
It hoisted her shoe into the air.
With her sock-clad foot planted on the ground, Xie Mi looked at the shoe dangling in front of her and nodded in satisfaction.
"Good thing these shoes I bought too big didn't come with return shipping insurance, so I couldn't bear to return them and kept making do. They finally came in handy today."
[Huh? That works too?]
[Wait, what kind of normal person sets up a snare to hoist people up in a strawberry patch?! Isn't that the real issue here?!!]
Xiao Jingxi, who had intended to play the hero rescuing the damsel, hadn't expected even his trump card to fail. Throwing caution aside, he went