"Come on, come on, come on! You're still not ready… I've been waiting for you forever."

Jiangg Yao stood in the living room, stomping her foot in frustration. Her cheeks were puffed out, and she looked as desperate as someone trying to flee Earth for Mars.

However, Jiangg Ning, who was being urged on, paid her no mind, her expression aloof.

Jiangg Ning strolled by the second-floor railing, holding a stack of ironed clothes, and walked unhurriedly toward her bedroom.

"Hey! Did you even hear me, you stupid sister?!"

"Stop nagging. It's so annoying… You haven't stopped for a second since this morning."

Jiangg Ning wanted to clamp her hands over her ears, feeling utterly hopeless.

It wasn't just today. She had been tortured by Jiangg Yao last night, too, dragged into a chat that lasted until three in the morning. Every time Jiangg Ning said, "No more talking," or "I'm really going to sleep," Jiangg Yao would excitedly shake her awake less than a minute after she'd drifted off.

It got so bad that she had to go sleep in the guest room.

But then Jiangg Yao came into that room too, flopped on top of her, and started whimpering. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

If she could, Jiangg Ning felt the impulse to just throw her sister at Chen Yuan in Lanjing and let her torture him instead. As long as she could get a good night's sleep, she wouldn't even care if she got cuckolded a little.

This just went to show how incredibly annoyed she was.

"Then just hurry up and finish packing! You think I *want* to nag you?!"

"What's the point? The flight is at eleven in the morning. It's only eight a.m. now. Would you please look at the time, my lady…"

"Can't we just go to the departure lounge and wait there?" Jiangg Yao asked, batting her big eyes.

"What's the difference between waiting at home and waiting at the airport? Are they going to move the flight up just because you got there early? You think this is the go-kart ride at an amusement park?"

"Sigh… Why aren't there any helicopters… Why did you book a noon flight… Why…"

"ARGH!!!"

Jiangg Ning scratched her head in a frenzy, spun around, and disappeared into the bedroom.

This left Jiangg Yao alone in the living room, muttering to herself. At this point, she was like a broken record, unable to stay quiet for even a second.

Perhaps it was because Jiangg Yao was just too eager to see Chen Yuan.

She thought about him day and night, feeling that if she didn't see her young master soon, she would definitely die of lovesickness.

Ever since the New Year, Jiangg Yao had been counting the days on her fingers. Occasionally, she would mysteriously pull Jiangg Ning aside and whisper, "Did you know there are only seventy-eight hours left until we see the young master?" and then she would start freaking out.

Now, the moment to fulfill that anticipation had finally arrived.

Luckily, this romance wasn't taking place in ancient times. Otherwise, given the speed of horse-drawn carriages back then, "Princess Yao" would have probably fallen gravely ill before the carriage could even wear deeper ruts in the road on the journey from north to south.

In the vast living room, Jiangg Yao paced back and forth.

Meanwhile, after an argument with the two sisters last night, Jiangg Ruxue hadn't even bothered to see them off this morning. She had probably rushed off to the office at five a.m., and the rift between them remained.

...

「By the time the two sisters came out of the house with their suitcases and handed them to the driver taking them to the airport, it was already ten in the morning.」

The two sat side-by-side in the back seat, Jiangg Yao slapping the seat, making a THUMP-THUMP sound.

"Let's go, let's go!"

"Please don't rush, Miss. Fasten your seatbelt first."

"Okay, it's fastened. Can we go now? Hiss—"

As she spoke, Jiangg Yao suddenly cried out in pain.

She looked at her sister beside her, annoyed.

"Why did you pinch me?"

Jiangg Ning rolled her eyes and whispered in Jiangg Yao's ear,

"You really are Chen Yuan's little simp."

"??? Why are you complimenting me?"

Jiangg Ning's eyes widened, feeling her younger sister was growing more and more shameless.

She thought for a moment, then added,

"You really are your brother-in-law's little simp."

"Fuck you."

The Magic Attack was instantly effective; Yaoyao immediately started cursing.

...

「It was a little after two in the afternoon.」

Chen Yuan had been waiting for a long time, checking the time on his phone every few minutes.

As the arranged time drew closer, he grew more and more nervous, even a little timid. He didn't know how he should act when he saw Jiangg Yao.

This was their first reunion after being apart.

Maybe after they got used to it, there wouldn't be so many emotions tangled up inside him. This wasn't him being melodramatic; it was a special kind of emotional fluctuation.

Chen Yuan also felt it was a bit like meeting an online love interest in person for the first time. Of course, he was incredibly excited, but he was also afraid there would be a sense of unfamiliarity when they met, that they wouldn't be as close as when they were together every day. 'What should I do…'

With this uneasy feeling in his heart, a small stream of people appeared in his line of sight. Passengers from a flight were trickling in, and Chen Yuan instinctively began to look around, hoping to find that familiar figure in the crowd.

But no matter how anxiously he searched, he still couldn't see Jiangg.

Chen Yuan looked left and right, staring intently at every unseen corner, hoping a girl with a suitcase would suddenly appear from around one of them, and that that person would be Jiangg.

But his hopes were not realized. He watched with some disappointment as the people left, and no new passengers emerged.

"Hey…"

Suddenly, a hand tapped him lightly on the shoulder.

That familiar voice made Chen Yuan tremble. He spun around in delight and saw a girl in sunglasses and a black trench coat standing behind him, her lovely face tilted up to look at him.

Her face was covered by a mask, but you could still tell that her cheeks were fair and that she had an exceptional air about her.

The tights she wore accentuated the slender yet full shape of her calves, and her loose hair carried the faint fragrance he had thought about day and night.

She took off her mask, revealing the smiling corners of her lips that she could no longer hide.

"Young master! I found you…"

Jiangg Yao tilted her head, her smile as radiant as a blossoming flower.