◎After confessing, shouldn’t you answer whether you are willing to date?◎

"What later?"

"Well... well, I don't know how to put it."

Ling Xi often heard Rong Xiao mention Teacher Mosaic, and always kept his words on his lips.

Rong Xiao is a very simple and straightforward person. She expresses what she thinks. Ling Xi thinks she is very easy to understand.

The long-awaited window paper was finally broken, and we knew that Yan Jue was Mr. Mosaic. Now what?

Ling Xi always felt that something should be different.

But looking at Rong Xiao's reaction, she seemed to have not realized anything yet... Well, Ling Xi didn't want to dig into other people's thoughts, and she didn't come here to create problems for Rong Xiao.

"Eat this. It's freshly made." Ling Xi pushed the food in front of Rong Xiao. "Eat it while it's hot."

"Wow, it's delicious." Rong Xiao focused all his attention on eating.

Ling Xi didn't stay long. She just came to ask about Rong Xiao's outing, and to get together with her and ask if she had any troubles.

But looking at Rong Xiao's expression, he didn't look like he was troubled at all.

It was almost time, Ling Xi left yawning. Before leaving, she told Rong Xiao to go to bed early and not to forget that she had to go to a meeting early tomorrow morning.

Rong Xiao seemed to be fine. After sending Lingxi out, Guangzhu rushed into the bathroom to take a shower, then jumped onto the bed and lay down properly.

He carefully wrapped himself in the quilt and lay straight, Rong Xiao relaxed his brows and smiled, sleeping obediently in bed like a burrito.

Soon the dream world appeared.

It’s still the same deserted city, the same streets, the same scenes.

But something seemed different today, as if even the air that was untouchable in her dreams seemed to have become warm to her.

As soon as Rong Xiao entered the dream world, he jumped up and ran towards the coffee shop.

The footsteps echoed in the deserted streets, mixed with the sound of the wind and stopped abruptly at the destination.

"Why are you here so late? Have you been chatting with Lingxi for a long time?" Someone at the cashier counter had his back to her and seemed to be playing with a small gadget placed there.

Rong Xiao's heart was pounding, and the answer he wanted had already emerged in his mind.

But she was waiting for more than that.

"Is that you?"

The figure with its back to the camera turned around, but strangely, the face became very blurry again. Even Mr. Mosaic's body kept flickering like before, but at a higher frequency than before.

Although he couldn't see the face clearly, Rong Xiao felt a sense of familiarity that did not need to be verified.

The figure slowly walked up to her, suddenly knelt on one knee, took the back of her hand and kissed it gently: "It's me, Yan Jue."

The voice also returned to its original mechanical sound, but Rong Xiao had never "seen" him so clearly as he did now.

Everything she saw and heard returned to the starting point, but she finally got the answer she wanted.

"Why is your face blurred again?" Rong Xiao didn't hesitate at all and raised his hand to touch his face. "Your body is the same as before, and your voice has returned to normal."

"Really?" Yan Jue repeated her actions in disbelief, and then he remembered that what he saw was different from what she saw, so it was useless to look.

"But it's okay, I know it's you."

Yan Jue looked at her quietly without saying a word. Rong Xiao's hand suddenly grabbed him, held him and started dragging him away.

"Come with me, I'll take you somewhere."

Rong Xiao was so strong that Yan Jue was almost pulled to the point of tilting. He staggered and finally stopped at the door of the video game store.

"You can see everyone's ability level on the game console here!" Pointing inside, Rong Xiao's eyes seemed to invite him to step into a new world together.

Yan Jue did not let go, and under the irresistible force, followed Rong Xiao into the video game store.

only……

He saw that the lighted game console looked just like an ordinary machine.

I don't think there is anything different.

Rong Xiao walked forward, poked and tapped with his fingers, and quickly brought up the information box.

Yan Jue, who was standing nearby, was also looking at the screen, but the picture he saw was completely different.

In his opinion, what Rong Xiao opened was just an ordinary game.

"What did you see?" Yan Jue probably guessed that what they saw was different, "I saw a game."

"It seems like I'm the only one who can see it." Rong Xiao pointed at the screen and began to read the contents. "Look, there's your message on it."

Rong Xiao read his message over and Yan Jue listened carefully, taking in the new content bit by bit.

"So, you used to come here often just to look up information?"

"Yeah, every time I have a new ability or kill a lot of zombies, I will..."

The sound stopped abruptly.

Rong Xiao opened his interface in disbelief, pointing desperately at the screen: "I leveled up, I leveled up again!!! But I didn't kill many zombies?!"

"Maybe it's because the zombies you killed this time were not ordinary zombies."

The zombies in the plant maze are not simple at all. They are very different from the zombies outside. Perhaps it is because of this difference that Rong Xiao was able to level up again after killing them.

Every ability has been upgraded. The lowest-level wind ability and mind control have risen to level two, while lightning ability and the ability that is suspected to be air=cannon are still at level one for the time being.

This is probably because these two abilities are rare, have strong attack power, and are more difficult to upgrade than other abilities.

“Besides these data, what else can you see?”

"There's a big progress bar down there," Rong Xiao subconsciously wanted to point, then remembered he couldn't see anything. "This progress bar is related to opening the reward box. I used to think it was the 'game' that was increasing the progress, but based on recent events, I don't think that's the case."

“Is there no explanation on it?”

"No."

“Is there a question mark somewhere?”

"No, there's just a progress bar. I've clicked all around it, but there's no prompt at all."

Yan Jue hugged his arms, rubbing his fingertips together, and fell into thought: "It's quite strange."

"It's quite incredible." Rong Xiao agreed.

"It's not that it's 'strange', but it all does resemble some kind of game or system, yet it's imperfect in some aspects." Yan Jue glanced at the unlit game consoles around him, feeling that the appearance of this interface on the game consoles in the arcade was no coincidence. "But, sooner or later, we will find the answer."

"You said that there is nothing in this world that cannot be solved. Even if it cannot be done for the time being, it can be done with time and effort. It just takes a little longer."

Yan Jue's face, which he couldn't see clearly, had the outline of a smile. His voice was mechanical, yet gentle: "You actually still remember."

"I remember every word you said, everything you told me, and every bit of knowledge you taught me."

The past was like ripples blown by the wind, rippling in his heart uncontrollably. Yan Jue couldn't help but think of the first time he met Rong Xiao here.

She was like a little wild beast, treating him as a terrible invader and ready to kill him.

Fortunately, Rong Xiao had not received any systematic training at that time, and was no match for him in terms of fighting and wit, so Yan Jue could always dodge him easily.

He would not hurt her, and turned the attacking atmosphere filled with murderous intent into a relaxing game, which gradually made Rong Xiao let down her guard.

Later he began to slowly teach her to speak and recognize words, and eventually it became a systematic class.

Rong Xiao went from being a little wild beast that knew nothing and could only attack to a normal person with independent thinking ability.

"Yan Jue... Yan Jue, what's wrong with you?" Rong Xiao's panicked voice came, bringing him back from his memory.

Yan Jue raised his head and met Rong Xiao's extremely rare look of surprise and panic. Not only was her expression strange, but everything around him was becoming more and more weird.

The seemingly real world was distorting and deforming, and my thoughts suddenly became chaotic and vague.

He was just about to reach out and grab Rong Xiao when the distorted image before his eyes turned everything he could see into a whirlpool-like distorted image, mixed with darkness, spinning and spinning continuously.

Finally, the thick black occupied all vision.

I don’t know how long it took, but the picture reappeared in front of my eyes.

But the world in the picture is no longer that fixed deserted city.

But a dream.

Just like the ordinary dream he had before he met Rong Xiao...

It was a wild and imaginative place with all sorts of random things, but there was no Rong Xiao and that deserted city.

Rong Xiao had never encountered such a situation before.

She saw Yan Jue's body becoming more and more transparent, and finally it dissipated in the air like glowing particles being blown away.

Rong Xiao reached out and grabbed a few handfuls, but when he released his hands, nothing was left.

She was alone in this world again.

Rong Xiao waited until the alarm clock rang and was pulled out of his dream, but he still didn't wait for Yan Jue to appear again.

She quickly washed up in the morning and didn't even have the mood to eat breakfast. She rushed to the meeting place to wait for people.

Not long after, Yan Jue appeared outside the meeting room with a hot breakfast.

As if he anticipated that she hadn't eaten breakfast, when Rong Xiao rushed over, he immediately handed her food and said, "Eat breakfast first."

"Oh," Rong Xiao took the thing and took a bite, then couldn't help but ask vaguely, "What are you so naive about?"

Yan Jue had already finished breakfast, so he had time to answer her: "I don't know what happened, I suddenly... dreamed."

"ah?"

"Every time I fell asleep, I would meet you there. But before I met you, I always had normal dreams. Yesterday, I dreamed again."

"Is it because you dreamed and left that place that I saw you disappear?"

Yan Jue was puzzled: "It's strange, I haven't had a dream in a long time."

"Then can you still come tonight?"

"I don't know either," Yan Jue said, then suddenly thought of something and laughed, "We see each other every day, do we need to meet in dreams?"

"That... is different." Rong Xiao, who was eating breakfast, changed his seat and sat on the bench next to the meeting room.

The meeting room wasn't open yet, and her teammates hadn't arrived yet, so she could still fill her stomach with something more.

"Hey, did you hear that the newly formed Team 68 jumped to fifth place in points on their first outing?"

"Tsk, what's the big deal."

"I heard their captain has a lot of special abilities, which he got from the supplies he exchanged for during the missions in the bubble."

"Hahahaha, does this count as... a superpower tycoon? Relying on his many superpowers, he's so audacious that he actually dares to go into the bubble to exchange for supplies. I'm afraid he doesn't know how to spell the word death."

The sound of discussion in the corridor ahead came closer and closer. Rong Xiao reacted for a moment. Team 68? Wasn't that her?

After taking the last bite of breakfast, Rong Xiao looked up at the group of people. She recognized one of them. He had used his supernatural powers on the street before and was caught by Long Qingyu. He also caused trouble for Long Qingyu.

The man had dyed red hair, which made him particularly eye-catching. Rong Xiao remembered him because of that red hair.

"Huh? It's you?" Red Hair also saw her and found that she was sitting at the door of Conference Room 68. He curled his lips in disdain and said, "So you are in Team 68."

"Yeah, what's the matter." Rong Xiao was not willing to be outdone, and deliberately passed him and threw the garbage into the trash can at the other end.

The red-haired man smiled maliciously: "I heard that your captain has many special abilities? What are they specifically?"

"How should I know?" Rong Xiao glanced at him and said casually, "Our captain never talks about her own affairs."

"Oh? Very cool?"

"No, it's very scary."

"How horrible is that?"

"It's probably like, if you don't agree with someone, you'll pull their hair out, if you're slightly upset, you'll break their ribs, or if you hear someone say something bad about you, you'll put your fist in their mouth."

Red Hair touched his hair subconsciously: "Stop lying."

"I didn't lie to you," Rong Xiao reached out and grabbed him tightly, "She'll be here soon. You'll know when you see her. I never lie."

"Let go, I don't have time." Seeing her serious look, Hongmao suddenly felt uneasy and panicked. He shook his hands several times but failed to shake them off.

It’s okay to eat melons, but to provoke a person with many superpowers is probably really seeking death.

"We have to have a meeting, let's go, hurry up." The person next to him should be his teammate, who also helped to pull.

Rong Xiao refused to let go: "She is really scary, I didn't lie to you, don't leave, wait, she may be here soon."

"Let go, are you sick? Let go quickly." The red-haired guy struggled even more violently. He finally escaped from Rong Xiao's hand, but ended up having a button pulled off.

But he didn't even dare to pick up the buttons. He pushed his teammates with both hands and walked away quickly, looking back as he walked, as if he was afraid that someone would suddenly come and kick him to death.

Yan Jue, who had been watching the whole thing, had been trying to hold back his laughter. When everyone left, he couldn't help himself: "Xiao Xiao, you've learned bad habits."

"Ah? I learned it from you." Rong Xiao raised his head with an innocent and pure look in his eyes.

Yan Jue was choked.

Did he teach her these strange operations?

"You're here so early." Shangguan Huai and Shangguan Yu arrived.

Glancing at the empty meeting room, Shangguan Yu's expression wasn't very good: "I told you not to get up so early."

"How can I be late for the team meeting for the first time?" Shangguan Huai was full of energy and looked much better than the day he just came back.

Shangguan Yu found a place to rest and sat down: "Being on time does not mean being late."

Not long after, the team leader who came to the meeting arrived and opened the conference room to invite them in.

The other teammates also arrived before the designated time.

"Let's start with the part everyone is most concerned about: paying their salaries," the person in charge said, smiling as he distributed several envelopes with their names on them. "This is your compensation for this mission."

Everyone got the money early in the morning and checked it happily, with exclamations of surprise rising one after another.

"The rewards this time are very high, because everyone not only completed the task... but also exceeded it. With the increase in points and rankings, the settlement rewards will be even higher."

After talking about the money, the person in charge asked about the situation encountered during this mission. The pen in his hand kept moving, and the paper was full of records.

After understanding the situation of this mission, the person in charge gave Rong Xiao a new schedule.

The time of the next mission is listed above, and the map and list will still be given the day before.

The list of needs is always updated. If something cannot be manufactured or produced within the safe zone, they need to go out and collect it.

There was ample time for adjustment between missions, and after 15 days, they only needed to train and rest.

After the meeting, they had to go to the training ground to continue their morning training. Instructor Lei was already waiting there.

Rong Xiao and others had just come out of the conference room when the door of the conference room not far away opened and a furry red-haired man came out.

Only after seeing that everyone in the neighboring team had left did he come out cautiously, as if he was hiding from some monster.

The training ground is very busy in the morning.

Every team that is not on a mission will continue training, and the thing that is most in demand in the training ground is people.

Lei Chao was already waiting. Seeing the team return safely, a smile appeared on his face and he patted the shoulders of these young people one by one.

Especially for Rong Xiao, Lei Chao also prepared a small gift for her, which was a red flower pendant.

"It's not easy to lead a team for the first time. I heard that you got the mission from the bubble?" Lei Chao wanted to take the time to chat with them before training.

Rong Xiao became excited when he heard it, and told Lei Chao everything that happened word for word, which made Lei Chao's face change again and again.

He has no special abilities, so he can't imagine whether he could escape unscathed if he encountered such a thing.

"However, next time, it's best not to take supplies from the bubble," Lei Chao hesitated, but couldn't help but voice his concerns. "You have too much stuff to take, and many of it is scarce at the base. If you encounter a particularly difficult mission... other teams would hardly dare to do that."

"The basic meaning is, someone has done it before?" Shangguan Yu understood the meaning of the words.

Lei Chao was silent for a while, then said, "Well, someone did this before. It was successful the first time, but the second time the entire team was wiped out in the bubble."

"..." Fang Yi, Tang Yiyi and Meng Xiao felt a chill on their backs when they heard this.

"That team was also very strong. After completing several missions, their points ranking rose to seventh. But who knew... one time they encountered a bubble," Lei Chao said, his face becoming increasingly grim, his voice choking. "The bubble contained dangers they were unaware of, and the checklist had been entered, making the bubble mission extremely difficult. Combined with these two things, none of the dozen or so people returned."

"Is this the team you led before?" Shangguan Yu guessed something.

Lei Chao nodded. "That's why I'm taking time off to train you guys." He let out a long breath and patted Rong Xiao on the shoulder. "I really don't want to see anything happen to the team I'm training again. I know you're all strong, and Rong Xiao is strong too, but sometimes people just slip up that one time and something irreparable happens."

"You have done your best. Supplies are important, but your lives are more important."

Rong Xiao listened carefully to Lei Chao's words and nodded: "I understand. I won't take any risks. I will be more careful in the future."

"It wasn't that dangerous actually," Su Ming stretched, "I think it went pretty smoothly."

"Shut up." Bei Ran, who didn't want to take any risks, raised his hand and hit him.

"Okay, okay, I'm just worried and wanted to remind you not to delay today's training. Let's get started." Lei Chao waved his hand, signaling everyone to do the warm-up exercises.

Yan Jue, who was originally watching from the side, suddenly discovered that Wei Feng actually walked in from the entrance.

Before he came in, he seemed to be talking to someone, but the person's face was blocked by the wall and could not be seen clearly.

"What's wrong? Who's looking for you?"

"Nothing." Wei Feng didn't elaborate. The training had already begun, and Yan Jue didn't ask any more questions.

After Wei Feng returned to the team, he took another look at the wall and vaguely saw a shadow swaying nearby, which disappeared after a few seconds.

Does Wei Feng have any friends here he can talk to?

The answer just now was not like Wei Feng's style.

Yan Jue knew him too well. He would not usually use such an ambiguous and perfunctory approach.

In the past, when he was in the team, when he stood up and someone asked him what he was doing, he would answer "shit". No matter what the other person asked, he would answer honestly.

Unless there is something I don’t want to talk about...I will just brush it off.

However, Yan Jue had already figured out Wei Feng's temper, and there was no way to pry him out of what he didn't want to say.

After a fulfilling day of training, everyone finally waited for the time to go home with sore bodies and sweat.

During this period, Yan Jue had been paying attention to the situation near the wall. After the morning, no suspicious figures appeared, and no strangers spoke to Wei Feng.

After the training, Yan Jue followed him quietly all the way and found that Wei Feng didn't go anywhere. He just bought some food and went home.

Is he just being overly suspicious?

When he reached the door of his house, Yan Jue suddenly remembered the existence of Yan Jing, and without any hesitation, he went up and knocked on the door.

There was silence inside the door and no response.

Did he go out after receiving the notice?

That’s not right. He has already returned from training. Where could Yan Jing go?

For some reason, Yan Jue felt like something in his brain suddenly exploded. He didn't even have time to enter the door, and turned around and rushed to Rong Xiao's house.

Even training was not so tiring. When he arrived at Rong Xiao's house, he actually saw that the door was open and someone was walking in.

That person... looks exactly like he does today!

Who else could it be besides Yan Jing?

This fake!

Just as Yan Jue was about to rush over to reveal his true identity, the door slammed shut.

Before he could raise his hand to take a picture, Yan Jue could hear the voices inside through the door.

"Why are you here?" Rong Xiao seemed to mistake him for Yan Jue, and spoke to him in the same tone as usual.

"I have something to tell you, so I came here. Are you free?" The person inside had the same voice as Yan Jue, and he got goosebumps when he heard it.

In particular, he deliberately changed his hairstyle and clothes to be exactly the same as his own. Isn't he trying to cause trouble?

"Are you free? Tell me." Rong Xiao seemed to have pulled a chair for him, and Yan Jue could clearly hear the movements in the room.

The atmosphere seemed to be getting weirder and weirder. Yan Jue wondered if Yan Jing was here to do anything bad, so he raised his hand and prepared to slam the door.

Before the palm of his hand fell, a clear voice came from the living room: "I have liked you for a long time."

Yan Jue: “???”

Is this guy crazy?

Saying this to Rong Xiao with his expression...

Doesn't that mean Rong Xiao thought he was confessing his love?

It’s only been a few days since they arrived in the safe zone, and Yan Jing is already causing trouble in front of him. Does he really think that no one will come after him?

Yan Jue's face turned grim. He raised his hand, but suddenly stopped before knocking.

When Rong Xiao hears this...what will be his reaction?

Curiosity took over, and Yan Jue put his ear to the door, holding his breath, waiting for the answer from inside.

"Ah?" Rong Xiao seemed to be stunned for a long time, and finally gave a one-word response.

Yan Jing seemed dissatisfied with this response, and asked anxiously, "Is this your answer?"

Inside the room, Rong Xiao scratched his head in confusion and asked, "Are you and Yan Jue playing some game?"

"I... I am Yan Jue!" Yan Jing pretended to be calm and corrected him guiltily, "Now that you heard that I like you, don't you have anything else to say?"

"You are not Yan Jue."

"I am."

"You're not."

"I am, that's me, I am Yan Jue."

Rong Xiao didn't want to go around in circles with him, so he picked up the water cup and took a sip. The look in his eyes didn't contain any of the emotions that Yan Jing expected to see.

"You're not Yan Jue. I can feel it. You can't fool me." Rong Xiao patted his shoulder earnestly and said, "Using superpowers is not allowed in the base. If you get caught, you'll be in trouble."

Yan Jing tried to struggle again, but when he met Rong Xiao's eyes, he was suddenly speechless.

Even though she didn't say why she could recognize him, the look in Rong Xiao's eyes was clear and firm, and it was definitely not a reverse test.

Yan Jing suddenly lost his confidence, hesitating for a while, unable to even utter a word of excuse.

"Are you playing any games?" Rong Xiao calmly poured him a glass of water.

"Yeah," Yan Jing thought of something and played along. "But I need an answer, or I'll lose the game. Can you answer a question?"

"Sure." Rong Xiao looked defenseless.

"Then do you like Yan Jue?"

Rong Xiao took another slow sip of water, seemingly considering his question seriously. After a few seconds, she nodded under Yan Jing's nervous gaze: "I like it."

How could I not like it?

Rong Xiao thought this question was quite redundant.

She likes Yan Jue, Ling Xi, everyone, and everyone in the team before and now.

"The kind who would protect him with her life if she were in danger?" Yan Jing's expression softened. He took off his disguise and spoke to her as himself.

It seemed that this question had a very important answer, and Yan Jing needed an affirmative and resolute answer.

"Of course," Rong Xiao nodded without hesitation, "No matter what happens, I will protect him."

Outside the door, Yan Jue held his forehead with his hand and smiled. He was well aware of the hidden meaning in every word Rong Xiao said.

Only the idiot Yan Jing thought that what she said was what he was thinking.

"I understand. Sorry to bother you. I... am going home. Bye." Yan Jing smiled, put down the cup and left.

When he arrived at the door, he had a strange feeling that Yan Jue was nearby.

But if Yan Jue was there, he would have broken in long ago, right?

Yan Jing shook his head and walked into the elevator. He still looked worried until the elevator door closed.

Rong Xiao stood at the door and watched him leave. Just as he was about to close the door, someone suddenly grabbed it with his fingers.

She raised her head and saw Yan Jue's face again.

One just left and another one comes. Is it you?

Rong Xiao was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why are you here?"

Yan Jue didn't say anything, just stared at her quietly with a bad expression.

"Yan Jue?" Rong Xiao raised her hand and waved it. She rarely saw Yan Jue in such a bad mood.

Yan Jue, in a playful mood, pursed his lips and replied in a dramatic manner, "I am Yan Jing."

"Hahahaha," Rong Xiao laughed out loud, "What are you two playing at? Why are you pretending to be each other?"

Rong Xiao's tone was so firm, so firm that Yan Jue felt as if he had become transparent and had no chance of deceiving people.

He raised an eyebrow, then returned to his usual attitude, smiling and asking, "How did you tell us apart?"

"Feel."

"You believe in 'feeling' so much?"

Rong Xiao stepped aside from the door and invited him in. "Of course I believe in my own feelings. They are just like the facts right before my eyes. They are so firm that there is no need to doubt them."

"By the way, did he behave in any strange way?" Yan Jue was eager to find out what had happened in the room before he even sat down on the sofa.

After all, he could only hear with his ears and couldn't see with his eyes, so Yan Jue had no idea what the boy had done.

Rong Xiao poured some rose tea that she had brewed for Yan Jue. It was the tea Ling Xi had brought earlier. She hadn't even bothered to brew it when she recognized it was Yan Jing's.

It is called rose tea, but what floats in the water are not flower buds, but a few dried petals.

Flowers and plants in the safe zone are now relatively precious, and no one is willing to use flower buds directly to make scented tea.

only……

The petals were obviously not dried enough. Once they came into contact with water, the fine lines on the petals stretched out and the colors became more brilliant as they floated in the water.

The faint fragrance made the atmosphere ambiguous.

"There's nothing special about it. Why do you suddenly ask this?" Rong Xiao thought about it and didn't find it strange.

"Would you like to think about it again?"

"He said he liked me," Rong Xiao thought carefully while holding the water cup in an effort to reconstruct the situation and conversation just now. "Oh, that's not right. He turned into your appearance and pretended to be you to say that he liked me. Why? What game are you playing? Is there a penalty for losing? I want to play too!"

"Puff——" Yan Jue was about to drink some water, but her words choked him and he started coughing madly.

After finally catching his breath, Rong Xiao next to him was already laughing so hard that he was out of breath.

The petals that were originally floating in the water actually stuck to the corners of his mouth.

"Xiaoxiao, you want to play games?"

"Yeah." Rong Xiao liked games, but she couldn't remember how long it had been since she last played them. The various thrilling situations she had encountered recently were exciting and thrilling enough.

Especially since she is now the captain, Rong Xiao feels that it is not appropriate for her to always think about playing games in her current position.

If Long Qingyu, Tian Yichuang and others knew this idea, they would definitely burst into tears and sigh at Rong Xiao's growth.

Yan Jue smiled and gently licked the petals at the corner of his mouth, biting them lightly with his snow-white teeth. The bright red color set off a bewitching smile.

"Have you ever played Truth or Dare, Xiaoxiao?"

"No, how do you play?"

Yan Jue casually picked up the bag of melon seeds that Ling Xi had brought earlier and said, "We'll take turns grabbing a handful and guessing whether it's an odd or even number. The one who guesses wrong gets to choose truth or dare."

"Then what?"

"I'll tell you the rest later."

"Okay, come on."

Yan Jue held up a handful of melon seeds he had just casually grabbed: "Let's guess, is it an odd or even number?"

Rong Xiao had thought he just wanted to eat some melon seeds, so she hadn't paid much attention. After thinking for a while, she casually gave an answer: "Odd number."

Opening his palm, Yan Jue counted the melon seeds one by one in even numbers in front of her.

"Xiaoxiao, you lose. How about truth or dare?"

"Adventure!! Big adventure!!"

Yan Jue seemed to have guessed her choice long ago. His smile was so melting that it seemed to melt anyone. He gently explained, "In a dare, the winner makes the request, and the loser has to do it."

"Okay, okay."

At that moment, a lot of evil thoughts surged in Yan Jue's heart.

He knew that Rong Xiao had no defenses against him, so he could propose all kinds of "big adventures", and even if Rong Xiao did them, he would not have any doubts or unhappiness.

but……

Even if he had no conscience, he could not do anything bad to Rong Xiao.

"Xiaoxiao, can I have a hug?" He had originally decided to do something "bad", but in the end, his "conscience" came to his senses and he suppressed his bad intentions. Yan Jue still felt a little reluctant and added hesitantly, "It's okay if it doesn't work."

"Of course!" As he said that, Rong Xiao flew over and crashed into Yan Jue's arms like a cannonball.

The collision of his head caused a slight pain in his chest, but Yan Jue completely forgot about the stinging pain. What made it even more difficult for him to bear was the rapid heartbeat.

Dongdong, Dongdong...

He had never felt his heartbeat so clearly as he did now, as if it was about to jump out at any second.

Rong Xiao didn't reject the hug at all. She rested her head on his chest and nudged it a few times like a kitten, finding a comfortable position. "Yan Jue, are you feeling unwell? Your heartbeat seems very fast. Do you want me to accompany you to see a doctor?"

"I'm fine," Yan Jue half-lay on the sofa without moving, his hand frozen in mid-air for a moment before slowly falling on Rong Xiao's back, "Xiao Xiao, do you remember what I told you?"

"Ah? You talked to me a lot."

"I said that some actions are very special and can only be performed with the person you love and are closest to..."

Rong Xiao didn't even raise his head, his face still buried in his chest, his voice muffled: "Isn't this talking about you?"

He wanted to say something to calm his wandering thoughts, but Yan Jue felt his heart hit by her words again.

He suddenly fell silent, as quiet as a volcano brewing to erupt.

"I also said that friendship, family, and love are different."

When he was a teacher at Mosaic, Yan Jue treated Rong Xiao as a blank sheet of paper and spent a lot of time on self-protection.

He knew that it was difficult to describe the emotional distinctions with just words, but he did his best to tell her the difference between the three.

Rong Xiao seemed to be getting more energetic. He rubbed his elbow on his stomach and climbed up a little, but his whole body was still spread out on him, pressing down without moving.

She began to count on her fingers: "I know, you told me..."

As if repeating what he had learned to the teacher, Rong Xiao counted out what he had said one by one, and raised his head excitedly to ask for praise.

But the distance was too close, and when she raised her head, her lips gently touched his chin, like a dragonfly kiss touching the water.

Yan Jue froze a little awkwardly, and the palm that was lightly placed on her body unconsciously curled up and exerted force.

"Am I right?" Rong Xiao didn't understand the ambiguity in the air. She looked into his eyes with sparkling eyes, causing Yan Jue's heartbeat to get faster and faster.

"Yeah, that's right." However, the remaining calmness and rationality were still tugging at Yan Jue, "Since you remember, you should understand that some intimate actions cannot be done casually with others, right?"

Five seconds passed.

Ten seconds passed.

Rong Xiao didn't answer.

Yan Jue had just been thrown onto the sofa by her, and it was not very convenient for him to look at the head lying on his chest. His brows twitched and he slowly lowered his eyes.

But the next second, his chin was smacked again and kissed hard.

No matter how much this guy has seen, no one can stand it!!!

"Rong...Rong Xiao?" Yan Jue's voice tone rose noticeably, and the name he had called countless times even trembled slightly when it came out of his mouth.

Rong Xiao rubbed his chest twice, then used her fingers to caress the spot she had just kissed: "Wow, your skin is so nice, so soft and smooth, even softer than my lips."

Who could possibly respond to that? Yan Jue was completely stunned, feeling more like Rong Xiao's prey, teased to the point of losing his bearings.

"Sister Xi said I don't like drinking water,