The New Year's Eve celebration lived up to its name. As soon as Sher entered the park, he understood what the phrase "time was running out" really meant. The park was packed with people, shoulder to shoulder, and completely jammed.
Fortunately, this amusement park belongs to her, so she doesn't have to queue to ride the Ferris wheel.
As the roller coaster roared overhead, Shekh asked, "Aren't these people cold riding an outdoor ride in the dead of winter?"
"This is stimulating and refreshing." Shi Jinzhe took the hot cocoa from the person in charge of the park and told them that they didn't need to follow him and could go about their business.
Sher took the hot drink, got into the sedan chair, and turned around to find that Mu Bai and Bai Weishuang were nowhere to be seen.
Aren't they going to sit?
Shi Jin leaned over and said, "Don't ask about the affairs of adults."
Shekh sat up straight, holding the hot cocoa cup in both hands on his lap. "I'm an adult too."
"Don't ask too many questions about the elderly."
"Oh." Shekh slumped his shoulders and lay down on him without any manners, gulping down the hot cocoa. When he finished, he broke the empty cup in his hand.
"Are these people going to wait until midnight?"
"Yes, there's an event." Shi Jinzhe looked down and saw that the little train that Shehe was fond of was full of people.
He took out his phone to send a message, but Sheikh pressed his hand down, saying, "No need to make any arrangements, just sit here."
"Afraid of the cold?"
"Too lazy to move." Shehe rested her chin on his shoulder, leaned forward to look down. The glass was fogged up, so she wiped it clean and unexpectedly spotted Jiang Ying in the crowd below. "Look, Jiang Ying is down there."
Shi Jinzhe looked in the direction Shehe pointed and saw Jiang Jin, dressed in white, holding two ice creams and standing under the stage watching the show as if he wasn't afraid of the cold.
A man stood next to her holding a bouquet of roses, saying something to her solicitously, but she ignored him, instead eating an ice cream in each hand.
"Her suitor is also a gamer, who claims to be the top disciple of some sect and insists on having a chat with her." Shi Jinzhe found it amusing. "You know her nickname is 'the witch doctor,' so naturally all sorts of weirdos flock to her. The other day, when the monitoring players were having a meeting, this guy was still waiting outside."
“I remember now,” Shekh told him. “That day I went to buy strawberry juice in the player rest area and ran into them on the street. Jiang Yinxue was in stealth mode and scared the guy all the way. In the end, he screamed and left the rest area. I didn’t expect the original world to still not give up.”
"Maybe they feel the original world is safer, so they have a better chance." Shi Jinzhe saw Jiang Yu order two more ice cream cones and said, "I don't know why they're not together now, it's not like they don't have feelings for each other."
"Because Jiang Yinxue decided to continue making her humanoid props."
Shi Jinzhe didn't quite understand. "She told you?"
"Yes, she's come to terms with it herself. Their relationship was originally based on spending a lot of time together, and it's not something anyone is used to if the way they suddenly change their relationship suddenly changes. Besides, none of the ghosts that Jiang Ying collected later were good enough for Jiang Yinxue. She felt that none of them were as reliable as him. To put it bluntly, she didn't trust anyone else to protect Jiang Ying."
I don't know the specifics of their discussion, but Jiang Yinxue made this decision because he felt that the prop's identity was, to some extent, a limitation.
Sheh wrapped his arm around Shi Jinzhe's waist, raised his face, and explained to Shi Jinzhe in his own words, "Just like the legal marriage relationship you told me before, our feelings are not protected by law, but our legal rights are protected by law. The prop and the owner have the same identity. This is another kind of relationship that cannot be betrayed until death, and it is Jiang Yinxue's one-sided inability to betray it."
Shi Jinzhe turned his head away. In the winter night, Jiang Yi was already eating her third ice cream cone. She wasn't watching the performance on stage at all; she had just found a place to train her ability to withstand the cold.
"Maybe things will be different someday."
Aren't they all secretly practicing their ability to hug ice blocks behind Jiang Yinxue's back?
Without checking how much ice cream Jiang Yu had eaten, Shi Jinzhe and Shehe turned to look at other things.
There were many entertainment options below, and after the Ferris wheel had gone around twice, they searched for a long time but couldn't find Mu Bai and Bai Weishuang.
Shehe went from lying down against Shi Jinzhe to sitting in his arms, her ear pressed against his chest, feeling every rise and fall of his breath with exceptional clarity. Then she put on her coat, and Shi Jinzhe conjured up something delicious for her that no one outside could see. She was very content.
“I still remember you saying that one of your parents might have the surname Xu.”
“No one’s surname is Xu, some people’s surname is Bai, so we’re all one family.” Shi Jinzhe had long forgotten what he had said before, but he added casually at the end, “Anyway, they’ve been calling me Xu Jinzhe for a long time.”
A family of four has four different surnames, so it's normal to have one more. Anyway, there's only one human in the family, so Bai Weishuang doesn't care about that at all.
He didn't care anymore, and instead said to Shekh, "Outside, he seems unpredictable and has a strange temper, but all he cares about here is food. He can be swayed by a chicken."
Shekh felt that this was not right, "It's not chicken, it's a lot of pancakes made by my wife."
"Don't make something romantic sound so horrifying, like it's a human meat platter."
"Calling empty promises romantic is a ghost story."
"I can't be romantic with you for more than five minutes."
"Then take your hand off my waist,"
"You won't sit still if I don't hold you; I'm afraid you'll fall off."
"Why can't I sit still? When have I ever been unsteady?"
"What are you sitting on... Never mind, I won't say anything more."
The atmosphere froze for a second before Sheikh stood up from him. "Let's go home."
As time passed, a draft broke through his clothes. "...Aren't we going to wait until midnight? Once it's past midnight, it'll be the Year of the Snake."
"How much longer?"
"More than two hours."
"No, let's go home." Sheh brushed his hair aside, straightened his coat collar, and seeing that Shi Jinzhe was still sitting there motionless, urged him, "Don't you want to go back?"
"You've learned to take care of yourself, so you feel like you don't need me anymore."
"Stop pretending." Shekh kicked him in the shin. "If you're not leaving, go sleep next door tonight."
"Walk."
Shi Jinzhe is now willing to move.
After getting off the Ferris wheel, he first sent a message to Bai Weishuang, informing her that he and Shehe had gone back first and that the driver would pick them up later.
Bai Weishuang replied instantly, "Take your time, no rush." Shi Jinzhe, who was so quick to react, wondered if the two of them had found a warm place to play on their phones.
"Are you done talking?" Shekh also went to buy an ice cream cone and came over, giving the first bite to Shi Jinzhe.
"You're eating this when it's cold?"
"I want to calm myself down first," Shekh said frankly. "I'm a little anxious, so I'm a bit agitated right now."
"Has it come down?" Shi Jinzhe only took a small sip from the side of the ice cream, leaving her with the perfect tip of cream.
"I haven't eaten yet, what do you think?"
"I was in a hurry. Let's go home."
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