Forced into a romantic relationship

Chapter 198: Good luck and good fortune
"Watching the sunset?"

"Can't you?"

"That's possible, but you might not be able to get back to school before tonight..."

"Then we won't go back. We'll stay at a hotel tonight, and you'll share a room with me. This is my second unreasonable request."

"How can that be? Your mother has repeatedly told me that I must send you back to school on time."

"It's okay, we'll just have a baby tonight, then my mom won't have anything to say. This is my third unreasonable request... no, this request shouldn't be unreasonable, right?"

"...That's going too far."

"Then this is my third excessive request."

"...Can I take back what I just said?"

"No, it's too late."

"..."

Seeing Mo Yixia's serious expression, Han Zhou was both amused and exasperated. This girl was definitely deliberately misinterpreting his meaning. He said helplessly, "Giving you more to look forward to doesn't mean you should treat me like Aladdin's lamp and make a wish. Besides, it's not even certain whether we can leave here before today."

Aladdin's lamp?

"Just treat the treasures in the story as wish-granting machines."

Han Zhou remembered that this was something from his past life and casually offered an explanation.

"Oh." Mo Yixia nodded, seemingly lost in thought, "Then I want to make a wish."

"I've already told you I'm not a wish-granting machine, can't you just listen to me properly?" Han Zhou said in a helpless tone.

Mo Yixia ignored his words, looked at the half-moon outside the cave entrance, and said softly, "I promise you will come to see me once every two weeks from now on, okay?"

Han Zhou was stunned for a moment, then turned his head and met the girl's smiling gaze. Her eyes were like deep pools, as if they contained spring water.

How could I possibly say no?

"It's okay, that's fine."

Han Zhou immediately surrendered, but seeing the smile in the other party's eyes deepen, he quickly added a condition to show his toughness, "However, you have to reimburse my round-trip travel expenses."

“No problem, I’ll reimburse you for the hotel room expenses too.” Mo Yixia was generous and magnanimous.

"That won't be necessary..."

“That’s true.” The girl nodded thoughtfully. “There’s really no need to book a hotel room. My neighborhood is full of houses, but I just need to avoid the cameras.”

Han Zhou: "..."

Once she was certain that she could see Han Zhou once every two weeks, Mo Yixia stopped making "wishes." Although the intervals were quite long, she was temporarily satisfied.

After all, this guy has his own things to do, and if it were in the past, she might not have made such a request.

Hugging her trench coat tightly, she suddenly asked, "By the way, do you know what I meant by 'creating an avalanche' when I told you before?"

"I don't know." Han Zhou shook his head, then became interested, adopting a humble and inquisitive look. "What do you mean?"

"Anyway, it's nothing dangerous, so don't worry."

Han Zhou secretly breathed a sigh of relief and continued to press, "What exactly does that mean?"

"As for the specifics..." Mo Yixia tilted her head and thought for a moment, "I guess I'll go and talk to each of the girls who have ties to you, and discuss your ownership rights with them."

Han Zhou was startled. You call this not dangerous?
Seemingly sensing his nervousness, Mo Yixia showed an understanding expression: "Of course, if you really find it troublesome, I can also call them over for a meeting to solve all the problems at once."

Han Zhou hesitated for a long time, but still couldn't bring himself to say, "Do you want me to die?"

He imagined what might happen if Guzheng got angry and killed everyone present, including him.

Of course, this was the worst possible outcome he could imagine.

"Of course I can't bear to let you die."

Mo Yixia understood his thoughts once again. She first sighed, then said calmly, "Don't worry, I was just lying to you."

Han Zhou waited a few seconds, making sure there was no "but" or similar transition at the end of the sentence, before tentatively asking, "So what exactly does 'avalanche' mean...?"

"Come ask me again when you're ready to die."

Mo Yixia didn't seem to want to talk to him.

Han Zhou tactfully ended the topic.

It was almost 7 a.m., and the temperature was still very low. It was unclear whether the temperature would continue to drop or rise.

The two of them stood close together, chatting about random things. The night gradually faded, the sky turned gray, and dawn was just around the corner.

More than three hours have passed since they fell off the cliff, and the chances of them being found are getting lower and lower. Perhaps everyone has already given up the search.

But neither of them seemed to care about the issue, and they began to discuss whether they could actually see the rising sun from this direction.

Mo Yixia had somehow snuggled into Han Zhou's arms. The embrace before they fell off the cliff was too brief, and only now did she have a chance to quietly feel the warmth of his body. But upon closer inspection, she realized that there was nothing particularly special about it.

I don't know why novels and TV dramas often portray hugs as something very beautiful.

Is it because what they're doing now doesn't count as a hug?

Mo Yixia wasn't quite sure, but she felt very at ease right now.

Even though it was very cold, even though there were cliffs and precipices outside, even though it was uncertain whether I would see the sunrise today or in the future, I felt inexplicably at ease.

Perhaps because she felt so at ease, she gradually became sleepy and fell asleep nestled in Han Zhou's arms.

"Wake me up when it gets light," she said.

"Ah."

Han Zhou responded softly, thinking to himself that this girl must be exhausted this time. After all, the energy pills can increase energy, and the fact that Mo Yixia was sleepy meant that she was quite tired.

He gazed at the sky outside the cave. The moon gradually disappeared, leaving only a faint outline. Dawn was approaching, and it seemed that rescue was out of the question.

Thinking about the possibility of leaving this place using the status bar, Han Zhou gradually became sleepy. He nodded a few times, and finally rested his head on the shoulder of the girl in his arms, and fell asleep as well.

When I opened my eyes again, the sky was turning a pale white, and the sea of ​​clouds churned between the cliffs. It was dawn.

Han Zhou was awakened by a noisy commotion.

He rubbed his face, gently patted the girl's shoulder in his arms, and said, "Yixia, it's dawn..."

As he was speaking, his ears twitched, and he suddenly realized that the noisy sounds were somewhat familiar. They sounded like faint human voices. He immediately perked up and used "listen to fate" to enhance his hearing. Sure enough, he heard voices talking above him.

"Yixia, wake up! Someone's coming!"

Overjoyed, he quickly woke Mo Yixia, who was still asleep. She slowly opened her eyes, glanced at the cave entrance, and asked, "Are you sure?"

"determine."

Han Zhou nodded, then said, "It's already daylight, and the people up there might not be able to see the lights. We need to think of another way to let them know we're here."

"Shout out?" the girl suggested lazily, seemingly still half asleep.

"forget it."

Han Zhou shook his head and said with a wry smile, "I'm now traumatized by shouting in the snow-capped mountains..."

He opened the backpack that was beside him.

……

"Han Zhou is definitely in this vicinity."

Xiao Yuyan looked at the powerful flashlight in her hand and said with a confident expression.

“But we’ve already searched this area several times, and there’s nothing around to obstruct our view. If he were really here, we would have found him long ago,” Lin Ming said, frowning.

“Unless he falls off a cliff…” his girlfriend, Lin Xiaoyou, added cautiously.

Upon hearing this, the atmosphere at the scene immediately froze.

At this moment, there were only four people on this snowy field: Xiao Yuyan, Lin Ming, Lin Xiaoyou, and Zhang Tao.

After leaving the base camp, the group quickly found the flashlight left by Han Zhou in the area after a search, but they still couldn't find Han Zhou and had to search elsewhere.

However, Xiao Yuyan firmly believed that Han Zhou was nearby and that he wouldn't have left his flashlight there for no reason. So she insisted on returning to the area. The guides didn't plan to waste time in the vicinity and went to search elsewhere. Only Zhang Tao and a few others followed.

Everyone had noticed the cliff nearby long ago. After noticing signs of loose snow near the cliff, the group had some guesses in their minds, but they were unwilling to say them aloud.

Now that Lin Xiaoyou has pointed out this possibility directly, the worries in their hearts have reached their peak.

"Will not."

Zhang Tao broke the silence first, shaking his head and saying, "Han Zhou is good at sports, so he won't be swept off the cliff just because the snow has loosened. He is fully capable of escaping from here in time."

"What if the missing girl is also here? Would Han Zhou, in order to save her or something,..."

Lin Xiaoyou once again voiced everyone's suspicions. Although she didn't finish her sentence, everyone understood what she meant, and their mood became even heavier.

Xiao Yuyan looked remorseful. Regardless of the truth of the matter, she had to bear some responsibility for Han Zhou's disappearance. She began to regret why she hadn't tried her best to stop him.

"Don't worry too much, Xiaoyu. Have you forgotten that I can read fortunes?"

Noticing her unusual expression, Lin Ming quickly reassured her, "I've examined the faces of those two people; they're both destined for good fortune, the kind who will live to be a hundred years old. There won't be any problems..."

"They wore masks almost the entire time, so you didn't even see what the girl looked like..."

Xiao Yuyan interrupted him with a wry smile. Just as she finished speaking, she suddenly heard Lin Ming shout, "Holy crap!"

"Why are you swearing..."

Lin Xiaoyou frowned, about to teach her swearing boyfriend a lesson, when she exclaimed "Holy crap!" a second later, then quickly covered her mouth, blushing, her eyes wide open.

Seeing that both of them looked like they had seen a ghost, Xiao Yuyan had a feeling and quickly turned around to look. She saw a round object suddenly fly up from the bottom of the cliff and land heavily in the snow.

"This is... a tennis ball?"

How could a tennis ball fly up from below the cliff?
Xiao Yuyan looked bewildered, but Zhang Tao immediately realized what was happening and rushed over to pick up the ball, exclaiming with delight, "There are words on it!"

"What word?"

The group exchanged bewildered glances, and a bizarre conjecture gradually surfaced in their minds.

"It's Han Zhou and Mo Yixia! They're in the cave below the cliff, about five or six meters away from us!"

Zhang Tao spoke urgently, then suddenly lowered his voice, "By the way, the ball also warned us not to shout around here... Why is that?"

He looked puzzled.

"It's probably because we were too loud and woke them up."

Seeing everyone's relieved expressions, Lin Ming joked, then sighed, "But I didn't expect those two to actually manage to get down to the bottom of the cliff, they're really amazing... You guys stay here for now, I'll go call the guides over!"

After saying that, he turned around and jogged away.

"Wait for me!"

Worried that her boyfriend might have an accident while he was alone, Lin Xiaoyou quickly followed him and asked curiously, "You really can read faces?"

"Isn't that obvious? Of course I can." Lin Ming said smugly.

"Then tell me what kind of face I have?"

"You're a big, clumsy elephant, hahaha."

"Nonsense! Stop right there!"

"..."

The two chased each other away.

Watching the two figures disappear into the distance, Xiao Yuyan smiled like an aunt, finally feeling the urge to ship them as a couple.

Thank you so much, Casmuse, for the 20,000 coins! In my post-launch message, I mentioned that a one-time donation to a patron would earn me an extra chapter, with the settlement within two days. It's too late today, so I'll do it tomorrow.

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