Lin Fan was very serious, his tone and expression earnest.

Cheng Xi was suddenly reminded of a time when they were still in school. One day, he had abruptly said, “Let’s skip school.”

Without any premonition, a usually industrious and model student had suddenly proposed to skip school, and he had even dragged another good student along with him. As two of the top students in the best class, Cheng Xi didn’t even need to think to know what the consequences would be.

At that time, however, she was calm and cool-headed, and had first asked him, “To where? For how long?” Afraid that he would start seriously planning, she even added, “If we’re gone for too long, I have to get some more money.”

Lin Fan hadn’t thought about any of that; he just wanted to skip school, to run far, far away.

“Then let’s think about it first.”

And so they thought about where they would go, how much money they would have to bring, what might happen on the way, what they would do if an emergency happened—but after making all their plans, though they had skipped...