念璃听不懂，却觉得气氛不对，抱着江砚的腿喊："我不嫁给胖墩！他抢我木马！"
江砚看着女儿气鼓鼓的小脸，又看看苏锦璃笑弯的眉眼，心里那点焦虑忽然散了。他蹲下身，擦掉念璃嘴角的糖渍："不嫁，爹爹不让你嫁。"
窗外的雪越下越大，打在窗棂上沙沙作响。苏锦璃将思砚抱上膝头，看着江砚在屋里踱步，忽然说："要不...咱们带孩子去江南躲躲？"
Jiang Yan stopped abruptly, his eyes lighting up behind his glasses. He thought of the warm spring in the south of the Yangtze River, the candied haws stalls by West Lake, and Nianli munching on candied cakes while chasing butterflies. "Okay," he walked over to Su Jinli and took her hand, "let's go tonight."
Siyan suddenly raised the abacus and said in a baby voice, "Let's go to Jiangnan and buy some candied haws!"
Nian Li immediately clapped her hands: "I want candied haws with chili!"
Jiang Yan looked at his children's excited faces, then at the smile in Su Jinli's eyes, and finally couldn't help but smile. He lowered his head and whispered in Su Jinli's ear, "Looks like we have to pack our bags tonight."
At that moment in the Forbidden City, the emperor smirked at the "Hundred Children Picture," oblivious to the fact that his designated child bride, whose parents were packing their belongings for a swift "escape," was about to depart. Meanwhile, in the Moon-Lanyue Pavilion of the Chancellor's residence, a family meeting on how to evade the emperor's arranged marriage quietly unfolded, accompanied by the clatter of Siyan's abacus and Nianli's laughter. The fragrance of wintersweet drifted in through the cracks in the window, blending with the charcoal fire in the fireplace, creating a subtle sweetness.
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