Su Qinglan froze like someone had just dropped a rock on her head. For a second, she thought she'd misheard.
Maybe the cave was playing tricks on her. Maybe her ears had gone bad. Because surely...Hu Yan, the same crybaby cat who had just been sobbing all over her shoulder, did not just say he loved her.
Her eyes went wide, blinking at the dark ceiling like it might confirm what she'd just heard. "Wait… what did you just say?" she asked, her voice half curious, half disbelieving.
Hu Yan sniffled, looking at her with those still-red eyes. "I said I love you. Don't abandon me."
Su Qinglan just stared at him blankly for a few more heartbeats before blurting, "...You're joking, right?"
He looked so deadly serious that she immediately regretted asking. "Oh," she muttered under her breath, completely flustered now. "So you're not joking."
Su Qinglan's heart skipped a beat. She still felt like it was all a dream, and she still had to wake up.
