Bringing Zhong Wannian into the private room, the atmosphere became more heated.

Lu Huai had already prepared a dare in advance and proposed playing Truth or Dare.

Almost every time, an empty bottle pointed in their direction.

The game became more and more intense. In less than a moment, Lu Huai and Zhong Wannian had started sharing a cookie.

The cookie became smaller and smaller...

Until it disappeared between their lips.

They kissed passionately, unable to part.

Suddenly, I couldn't sit still and wanted to go outside for some fresh air.

Someone patted my shoulder and whispered in my ear:

"Do you want to go out?"

I looked up, astonished.

Jiang Xu was different from Lu Huai. Throughout the night, he seemed lazy and indifferent, like an outsider, uninterested in everything that was happening.

One time, when the bottle pointed at him, others encouraged him to choose between a daring princess hug with me, but he only chose to drink as a punishment.

I thought he wasn't interested in me.

He saw my stunned expression and repeated:

"Are you coming or not?"

"Or do you want to stay and watch a reality show with no content all night long?"

He referred to Lu Huai's confession as a contentless reality show, a bit sharp-tongued but striking a chord.

I reached out my hand, and he pulled me up in one go.

"What are we going to do?"

"Sober up."

I didn't expect Jiang Xu's way of sobering up was climbing a mountain.

I wasn't physically fit and halfway through the climb, I was panting for breath and slipped on a rock.

I really couldn't climb anymore.

I lazily sat on a rock halfway up the mountain and said, "I can't climb anymore. I can't get up."

After saying that, I realized that I was acting spoiled to a guy I had just met, which wasn't my usual style.

The guy who was a step away from me sighed, turned his head, raised an eyebrow, and exuded a bit of a rogue vibe.

"I only have two hundred yuan on me. Am I qualified to help you up?"

The wind in the mountains blew his scattered hair on his forehead, revealing a stunning face.

Handsome, radiant.

I continued his line of thought and said, "I didn't expect to run into a poor guy. I guess we can't open a tab today."

Jiang Xu stared at me for a while and said, "Fine, I've met a freeloader."

Then he squatted down resignedly, patted his shoulder, and said, "Come on, princess. I'll carry you on my back."

"You can owe me the rest of the tab."

Looking at his broad back, without thinking, I asked, "Didn't you refuse to hold me earlier?"

What's the difference between a princess hug and being carried on someone's back?

He didn't answer immediately. He just lifted me up and step by step, we walked up the mountaintop with steady strides.

Then he said solemnly, "In the private room, they only asked if I wanted to hold you, but they didn't give you a choice."

"But here, you don't have to think about anything else. If you don't like it, you don't have to do it."

Hearing those words, I was stunned.

We had known each other for less than twenty-four hours, yet he could hit the mark with every word, knowing what I cared about the most.

No one had ever said such things to me. Even at Lu Huai's home, I had habitually hidden my preferences and carefully tried to please them.

Over time, I had forgotten my own desires.

But someone told me that I could choose not to do something if I didn't like it.