[They gazed into each other's eyes, the milk candies they had just fed each other still in their mouths.]
Shen Yuan was dumbfounded.
'Isn't this plot moving a little too fast? A candy-feeding scene this soon after the start?'
'This is a bit much, isn't it?'
He stared at the intimate words on his phone screen, his Adam's apple bobbing unnaturally.
His memory uncontrollably flashed back to that sweltering afternoon, filled with the drone of cicadas—
"How clumsy."
'Feeding each other candy is so outdated now.'
'How could I, the great Emperor Shen Yuan, have my brain turned to mush by a single piece of milk candy?'
'This kind of Sugar Text is so amateurish it's not even worth mentioning.'
'It's not sweet at all.'
Shen Yuan shook his head, then his gaze fell on Li Zhi's face on the video call.
There wasn't the slightest change in the beautiful girl's expression, not even a flicker in her eyes.
