Xu Chuo naturally did not blame her. The snow that had lasted through the New Year finally stopped after nightfall. Keeping his earlier promise, Pei Ye took Jiang Yiner into the courtyard to build a snowman. The fresh snow was clean and soft, and all ten fingers on the southwestern girl's hands were flushed red by the snow, yet her face was still filled with happy smiles.
Pei Ye sat cross-legged in the snow, watching the girl before him contentedly set two black stones into the eye sockets, completing her first creation all by herself. Resting his chin in his hand, he smiled. "Yin'er."
"Hmm?"
"Actually, building snowmen isn't the most fun you can have in the snow," Pei Ye said. "There's something more exciting you haven't tried yet."
Jiang Yiner was curious. "What is it?"
"Come here." With his hands buried in the snow, Pei Ye smiled. "Come squat down in front of me."
Entirely unsuspecting, her eyes full of delight, the girl came smiling over to him and obediently squatted down. "What is it, Brother Pei?"
Pei Ye grabbed a handful of snow and pressed it down the back of her collar, then turned, scrambled up, and ran amid the girl's screams.
Chapter 583: A letter with the new year
Jiang Yiner had absolutely never experienced anything like this. Her body, kept toasty warm beneath her padded jacket, suddenly had a solid handful of icy coldness dumped against it. The loose, soft snow melted on contact with her skin and slid down her spine, making her eyes widen and her upper body go rigid.
Another experience she had absolutely never had was such utterly unexpected "malice"-or rather, the very thing called a "surprise attack."
Through all the years since childhood, she had long grown accustomed to hearing other