Sour plum flavor

They left the cinema. It was lunchtime, so the group casually walked into a self-service hot pot and barbecue restaurant, priced at 89 yuan per person. Jiang Yanmu was immediately drawn to the desserts and grabbed several pieces.

The dessert wasn't the kind that you cut a slice out of a birthday cake; it was a cube about the size of two thumbnail nails.

The others returned to their seats with several plates of seafood, meat, cooked food, and various other snacks. Seeing Jiang Yanmu return, Ye Ziyi, surprised that she only had a plate of cake in her hand, asked, "You only eat cake?"

"No, there are others. I'll go get them later."

"oh oh"

"Hey, we thought you only ate this one thing," she said, adding meat to the hot pot while watching it cook.

No, no.

"Then I'll go get it." The two understood each other perfectly.

After nodding in agreement, they went about their own business. Jiang Yanmu happily hummed "Unrestrained" as she plated her food, then sat down, feeling quite satisfied.

The other four had been eating for quite a while when Jiang Yanmu finally returned. "Jiang Xiaoyan, what are you choosing? You've been taking so long. If you keep choosing, we'll be rushing to the next round," Fu Yanjin said, taking the plate from Jiang Yanmu and putting it in the pot.

"There were so many things I wanted to eat, so it took me a little time to choose. Oh! Right, there's one more I forgot to get." Jiang Yanmu had just sat down when she got up to run to get the plum juice, but Fu Yanjin stopped her. "Wait a minute, let's take a picture! Everyone come out and watch my directions."

Everyone followed Fu Yanjin's instructions, pushing Jiang Yanmu to sit next to Ye Ziyi, while the other two were casually left aside. "You guys are just sitting there like idiots! Three! Two! One! Cheese!" Fu Yanjin was really worried about these two.

The two of them made a peace sign together.

This is the first photo of the two of them together.

Thanks to Fu Yanjin's help, this impossible task was accomplished.

Shen Kuo and Wen Yan stood to the side for a long time. "What about me? Why are you letting the two of them take pictures!" Wen Yan said, breaking the atmosphere. Everyone who was sitting and those taking pictures turned to look at Wen Yan.

Everyone could see that Jiang Yanmu liked Ye Ziyi, but he just had to ruin the atmosphere. "What? Did I say something wrong?" He seemed innocent, but to everyone else, he was just a scapegoat, and they wanted to throw him out.

Upon hearing this...

"hold head high"

Upon hearing this, Shen Kuo silently took a half-step back, wanting to distance himself from this brainless man, and said, "Sometimes I really wish you had some brains, but never mind, you'd just waste them."

"How do you mean I'm brainless? What do you mean?"

"It's already there, why bother explaining? It just shows a lack of common sense."

"Shen Kuo!" If they continued, the two would start fighting. Ye Ziyi, who was standing to the side, didn't try to stop them, but instead fanned the flames, saying, "You two go outside and fight, don't disturb my meal." As soon as Ye Ziyi said that, the two stopped arguing, each sat on one side to eat, and then hummed a tune in unison.

After taking the photos, Jiang Yanmu ran to the cabinet to get some plum juice, opened it, and took a sip. "Sweet and sour, so delicious!" They ate at the buffet, chatted, and took more photos together...

Back home, Jiang Yanmu lay comfortably on the bed, burying her face in the blankets. Just a moment later, a notification sounded on her phone—a WeChat message from Fu Yanjin. She lifted her head and opened it. [Sent you the photo~ You're welcome! [Voiceover emoji]]

[Remember to send a copy too! Pay attention! .jpg]

【Okay, I got it~ Cat salutes.jpg】Jiang Yanmu zoomed in on the picture, grinning foolishly as she looked at it for a long time before sending it to Ye Ziyi. 【Cat runs away.jpg】Jiang Yanmu ran off after sending the message, then opened the photos she had taken that afternoon and saved them as chat backgrounds and wallpapers.

On the other side, Ye Ziyi finished showering and, while drying his wet hair, checked the message from Jiang Yanmu on his phone. Seeing the emoji she sent, he couldn't help but smile. He replied with an emoji, along with a caption: 【Hatsune Miku resting her chin on her hand.jpg】

Why are you running so fast?

What not to do

[How are the photos?] Jiang Yanmu sent not only photos of herself and Ye Ziyi, but also a group photo of everyone at the end.

【good】

The day after she returned, Jiang Yanmu finally got to sleep for a whole day, just as she had hoped.

——

The New Year is just around the corner, and my family dragged me out of bed to go shopping for clothes. It was incredibly crowded during the New Year, and it took ages to finally get on the bus to the mall. After browsing for a while, Jiang Yanmu bought a white sweatshirt with a short down jacket, plus fleece-lined straight-leg pants, and finally a pair of white shoes. She didn't pay much attention to what shoes she wore; they just looked good together.

After leaving the mall, they went to the basement next door, put their purchases in the storage area, and then started buying New Year's goods. After a long afternoon of work, Jiang Yanmu and her younger brother collapsed onto the sofa, exhausted.

ah--

After a short rest, they were forced to get up from the sofa to arrange things. One put up Spring Festival couplets, and the other hung lanterns. Once they were done, Jiang Yanmu opened Honor of Kings. Her younger brother, Jiang Nan, who had heard the commotion, leaned over and asked, "Sis, wanna team up?" Since she had no one else to play with, Jiang Yanmu agreed, "Okay, ranked or casual?"

"Let's play a match first, I'll improve my Yi Xing proficiency," Jiang Nan said.

"Oh," Jiang Yanmu said.

I hadn't been playing King of Glory for long when a notification popped up that Ye Ziyi was online. I figured he was playing with Shen Kuo. Hearing that they were playing together, I figured I might not be able to queue with them, so I didn't ask and continued playing with Jiang Nan. A string of red (indicating defeat) scores left Jiang Nan feeling like she was having a heart attack. She threw down a "I'm not playing anymore" message and slipped back to her room.

He silently started another game. Just as he was about to log off, Ye Ziyi invited him into the room. The reason was that one of the people they randomly pulled in the previous game had left, and Jiang Yanmu happened to be there, so he pulled her to fill the gap.

In this game, the positions were all chosen. Ye Ziyi was the jungler, Shen Kuo was the opponent's Lu Bu, Wen Yan was the mage Angela, the player with the ID "What are you looking at?" was the marksman Baili Shouyue, and Jiang Yanmu was the support Cai Wenji. Just over two minutes into the game, Jiang Yanmu and "What are you looking at?" were suppressed by the enemy Ma Yao and couldn't get out of the tower.

The economic gap was still too large. Even with Ye Ziyi's help, Jiang Yanmu and Nichosha were utterly crushed by the opposing team again as soon as he left. Nichosha, who had been constantly pressured, finally snapped, "What kind of support are you playing? You can't even protect me! If you can't play, then don't play, go home!" Hearing the marksman unleash a barrage of attacks, Jiang Yanmu, unable to curse, could only let the marksman continue his onslaught. Ye Ziyi, who had been silent until now, finally spoke up: "Support, come with me."

"Okay," Jiang Yanmu replied. Just as she got onto Ye Ziyi's body, the marksman started hurling insults at him along with Ye Ziyi. "You can't even play jungler properly, why did you pick that? Can't you even provide support? What bad luck! Why do I always get matched with idiots like you?" The others couldn't stand it anymore and started attacking the marksman. Even Jiang Yanmu, who wasn't one to swear, spoke up, saying, "The jungler provides support, okay? You're not good enough, so why blame others?"

"What are you looking at?" she said. "Oh, you're protecting them now? You two are a perfect match, how could you play like this?" What followed was a long string of insults, continuing until the game ended. They tried to report the other team but failed; instead, all four of them were reported and penalized, which made them even angrier. Hearing this, she pulled the marksman back to yell at him, causing Jiang Yanmu and Ye Ziyi to go off and play in their own team.