"Because the moment you appear, you're the only one I can see."
Ye Yizhou looked up at Yan Qingdu, his eyes sparkling like stars. Praise rolled right off his tongue, his sole aim to embarrass Yan Qingdu enough to curl his toes into a castle.
"Darling, looking like that and talking like that, could you be jealous? You must have misunderstood. As long as you're here, everyone else pales into insignificance. Only your beauty shines. Darling, you're the center of the universe, more dazzling than the galaxy. You're like a god whose brilliance rivals the sun and moon. I-mmph."
Yan Qingdu raised a hand and covered his mouth, manually muting him as he said quietly:
"Got it. Shut up."
He got it already?
I hadn't even gotten started!
Ye Yizhou felt wronged. He couldn't get a single declaration of love out. He wasn't being given the slightest chance.
Yan Qingdu had only just lowered his hand.
"Can you get it together? Don't you have a mouth? If you want me to shut up, just kiss me forcefully, and I'll shut up, won't I? Is that so hard?"
Ye Yizhou was such a chatterbox, his mouth running nonstop.
"The circumstances don't allow it," Yan Qingdu replied objectively.
Ye Yizhou: ...
"Yizhou, is he your husband?"
Watching Ye Yizhou interact with this mysterious NPC, Jiang Chuyu gradually began to pick up on something else.
Ye Yizhou gave Jiang Chuyu a strange look, a little puzzled. "Didn't I tell you?"
"When did you tell me?"
Jiang Chuyu was stunned and firmly denied it. "Impossible. Absolutely impossible. I never heard anything about this."
"Didn't you just ask where the other NPC was? I answered, 'Do you mean my partner?' Isn't that what I said?"
Ye Yizhou began going over their earlier conversation for Jiang