The scene shifted, and they appeared on a bustling street.
The afternoon sunlight spilled lazily across the road, lined on both sides with shops of every kind.
Boutiques with dazzling window displays, milk tea shops wafting sweet aromas, bakeries rich with the fragrance of wheat...
People came and went, petals drifted down from the branches, and the whole street was wrapped in warm sunshine and the bustle of everyday life.
Liu Woxing paused. "Why does this place feel both familiar and unfamiliar..."
"This is Apricot Blossom Street eight years ago," Xie Mi said.
"So the happiest place in the world is Apricot Blossom Street?" You Hongxuan's eyes lit up.
Xie Mi instinctively looked at Shen Yeqing.
"Actually, there isn't a definite answer to where the happiest place in the world is. But this is a virtual world someone designed, so the way it operates must follow its designer's logic..."
Liu Woxing also looked at Shen Yeqing.
"In other words," Lai Bingxuan mused, "this is the place Shen Yeqing thinks is happiest?"
Everyone looked at Shen Yeqing at once.
Shen Yeqing withdrew his gaze from the milk tea shop by the street and looked at Xie Mi.
"Yes."
"This is the happiest place to me."
Something flickered in Xie Mi's eyes. She was just about to say something when a familiar voice rang out in the distance.
"Sister Liu, aren't you broke?"
Everyone turned toward the voice.
They saw a woman wearing an Afro wig and cat-eye sunglasses, with fiery red lipstick and two matchmaker moles stuck symmetrically on either side of her face, dressed in a leopard-print top, fashionable leather pants, and silver pointed-toe leather shoes.
She stood outside a shoe shop with a very familiar-looking teenage boy.
"What kind of talk is that! What are you saying!"
The woman