"Mm."
"I think Her Highness Jinyang is quite nice. I'm willing to be friends with her now. Do you think she'd be willing to be friends with me?"
"..."
"Hmm?"
"Serve Her Highness properly as her subordinate. Do not harbor thoughts of overstepping your station."
"..."
"Did you hear me?"
"Got it."
Pei Ye turned toward Li Xizhou, and her pale eyes turned toward him.
Pei Ye rolled his eyes at her.
The two sat quietly on the roof all night without either saying a word, until the first faint light appeared and Li Xizhou fell asleep on the roof, wrapped in the Warm Cloak.
Pei Ye stopped sending messages to Knowing Intent, too.
An extended leave request
Dear readers, as announced earlier, the arrival of unavoidable tasks means that Parrot Bites Tongue must take an extended break during March and April, probably lasting over a month. Updates will enter a Chaotic Era.
There are two main tasks.
First, an eight-thousand-character paper. Although I mentioned it during winter break, I hadn't formally started it, after all. Thinking it through, planning it, and writing it all take time, and I don't know whether it'll be easy or difficult. Using last year's paper, which took thirty days, as a reference, I expect to squeeze this one into fewer than twenty days.
Second, my thesis proposal presentation in May. I currently have the beginnings of a topic, which still needs thought, and I also need to write roughly ten thousand characters of supporting material. I expect this to be slightly easier than the paper above, but that's hard to say, too. I won't know until I actually get into it.
In short, I'll work efficiently on both tasks, but I expect it'll still be difficult to finish within a month. So I expect