Mingshen stared at the box for a long moment. If he was being honest, her "evidence cards" were plenty enough that took his heart to the highs and lows like a rollercoaster ride. More than the cards being novel or amusing, the words within them had struck him hard. Harder than a plane crash landing.
He would have pounced on her the moment she sentenced him to the sweetest life imprisonment in his Spicy's heart. But Jia had been extremely earnest in reading aloud the cards one by one. She would have killed him on the spot for disturbing her, and he wanted to be alive for the night to come.
But as he held the box, jitters and flutters only smashed harder in his chest. He felt like his ride was climbing to the top slowly and steadily, and then he would be completely at gravity, aka Jia's mercy.
He unwrapped it, much more like how he imagined unwrapping a naked Jia. It was a midnight-blue box and he unlocked the lid. Unknown to him, he had been holding his breath this whole time.
