As they ate, Chu Ge kept his head lowered over his phone, sending Zhong Yi her details.
The details were simple: "Qiu Wuji, female, age..."
"How old did you want to be again?" Chu Ge asked Qiu Wuji hesitantly.
Qiu Wuji poked and poked at her rice with her chopsticks. Now that this guy had finished holding her hand, he had started playing on his phone over dinner...
His question made her pause. Right, how old was she again?
She had originally been ten thousand... No, not quite ten thousand, actually, just over nine thousand... No, that was wrong too. Eighteen plus another nine thousand-odd...
In any case, she needed a new age here. Qiu Wuji suddenly perked up. "Let's make it eighteen."
Chu Ge: "?"
"What? What's that look for?"
"Please, my esteemed master. However young you try to pass yourself off as, you still have the bearing of someone who's been a sect leader for years. No one would believe you were a young girl... You'd have to be a white-collar worker of at least twenty-five."
"How old were you again? Twenty-eight?"
"Mm."
"Then I'll be twenty-five."
Chu Ge smiled too. "Sure. Three years younger is just right."
Qiu Wuji glared at him. Chu Ge quickly lowered his head and sent a message. "Sent you her details. Qiu Wuji, female, twenty-five years old, birthday May 20."
May 20 was the birthday he had assigned her in the book. He had even specified a quarter past the start of the hour of the Goat, or around 13:14. Qiu Wuji had never thought there was anything special about it before, but looking at it now, she felt this guy must have had something else in mind. "Why did you give me that birthday?"
Chu Ge was still smiling. "You're so