As Gu Chengze and Lin Xuanyu sat stewing in their anger and a sense of wrongness, the mood around them continued its bright, carefree flow, oblivious to the dark undercurrents.
Su Wanyan stood there, trying her best to muster a serious face as she looked intently at Shen Guoxing. Her expression was carefully neutral and determined, but the slight upward curve at the corners of her mouth and the warm flush spreading across her cheeks betrayed just how shy she truly felt. The gentle light caught on her skin, highlighting the soft pink tint that refused to fade.
Shen Guoxing smiled playfully up at her Aunt Wanyan, clearly not taking the attempted sternness seriously at all. After all, she had seen that exact look on Su Wanyan's face many times before, and every single one of those moments had ended with her aunt conceding.
