Let's not talk about others. Even Lai Xixi herself hadn't seen Yong Yan for two months. Communication wasn't as advanced as it would be later, so it wasn't particularly easy to video chat or anything like that. This led to the tragedy that unfolded when the two of them met again after two months, Lai Xixi was dismayed. She knew she had gotten a tan, but she didn't expect to turn this dark. Moreover, her initial thoughts were exactly the same as Mei Mengzhen's; they both firmly believed that Yong Yan must have gone to get a beauty treatment.
However, that wasn't the case.
Yong Yan had indeed spent the past two months just sitting in the office. But Yong Yan was also very busy with work, having not only to get up early but also to work overtime every day continuously for these two months, and without getting any sun, he naturally got paler.
Yong Yan, somewhat embarrassed, comforted her, "It's okay, you'll get your fair skin back."