[Bonus chapter] Even More Now

Seeing how she didn't even blink, Xia Zhao put his hand on her eyes to close them. "Are you surprised or shocked? Is it really that shocking though, Yanzi?"

Mu Chenyan held his hand and put it down as she looked at him and laughed. She laughed so much that tears came to her eyes. She just couldn't stop laughing it seemed just that funny right now to her.

"Do you think I'm joking?"

"It's the funniest joke of my life," she told him as she wiped her tears.

"It's not a joke though," he said. "And you know it too. Now, you're just avoiding it once again. Just like you avoided it years ago."

"I avoided it?" she asked strangely. She held his collar and pulled him closer as she said, "You're the one who said you'd take responsibility. Do you understand that at that time I didn't want to hear that."