Chapter 116

“Go ahead,” Yan Jin waved her hand, feeling bored as she looked at the lanterns hanging from the shops on the other side of the river.

After accompanying Yuan Yuan to find the river lantern, she should be able to return to the inn to rest, right?

Yan Jin glanced at the children releasing river lanterns with their parents, feeling greatly relieved.

Fortunately, Yuan Yuan wasn’t pregnant. If she were, with one adult and one child, they would be noisy enough to make her ears hurt.

The owner selling the river lanterns recommended the exquisite lanterns that were popular today to Yu Shu, “Sir, these few lanterns are the best-selling ones today. If you’re releasing lanterns with your sweetheart, buying these would be most suitable.”

To be honest, the lanterns recommended by the owner were all exquisite and beautiful, and they were all to Yu Shu’s liking.

If it were before, Yu Shu would have bought them without a second thought.

But this time, Yu Shu didn’t listen to the owner’s recommendation and choose the most beautiful and luxurious lanterns according to his own aesthetics. Instead, he chose a plain and inconspicuous lantern.

Yu Shu, who had chosen his lantern, curled his lips into a cunning smile.

If he chose a beautiful lantern, Xiao Xiao would definitely find it at a glance, and that would be no fun.

With this lantern he chose, Xiao Xiao definitely wouldn’t be able to find it.

Yu Shu never intended to use the river lantern to test his compatibility with Yan Jin in the first place.

As a qualified author who had read all the cliché stories, he knew that the human heart couldn’t withstand tests.

So the river lantern test was just a little game he deliberately played with Yan Jin.

But when he placed the lantern on the river, Yu Shu still felt a glimmer of anticipation in his heart.

He and Xiao Xiao were so compatible, what if, just what if, Xiao Xiao could really find his lantern?

Thinking of this possibility, Yu Shu’s lips revealed a pair of dimples.

After placing the lantern, Yu Shu went to inform Yan Jin, “Xiao Xiao, I’ve released my lantern, you can start looking now.”

Yan Jin knew the main event had arrived and sighed inwardly before starting to search for the lantern Yu Shu had released.

Not only did Yu Shu not take this as a serious compatibility test, even Yan Jin herself, upon realizing it, knew that this was a joke Yu Shu was playing on her.

Yuan Yuan was usually so well-behaved, how could she play such an unreasonable joke with her?

Even when acting spoiled, Yuan Yuan always had a sense of propriety.

But Yan Jin still hoped that she could find Yuan Yuan’s lantern.

Even if Yuan Yuan didn’t take it as a real compatibility test, who could say for sure that Yuan Yuan didn’t have a glimmer of anticipation in her heart that she would recognize the lantern when releasing it?

Wasn’t this just testing how well she understood Yuan Yuan? She would search carefully later.

Once she found Yuan Yuan’s lantern, Yuan Yuan would definitely smile more beautifully than the fireworks that had just been released, and she could even coax Yuan Yuan to go somewhere else and try a different position.

Seeing Yan Jin start to identify the lanterns, Yu Shu’s heart began to flutter.

In any case, it was just a little game. If Xiao Xiao couldn’t find it, it wouldn’t be strange, because he had deliberately chosen a lantern that was completely opposite to his preferences.

If Xiao Xiao chose the wrong lantern later, he would just tease her with a sentence. He couldn’t say too much, lest Xiao Xiao become angry from embarrassment.

If Xiao Xiao chose wrong, it would also prove that Xiao Xiao understood him well, and that’s why she would choose a lantern he would like.

No matter how Xiao Xiao chose, the result would be good, proving Xiao Xiao’s love for him.

When Yan Jin was searching for the lantern, she felt there were a few too many people standing in this spot. So she walked along the river, searching for the lantern as she went.

Yu Shu was afraid of disturbing Yan Jin’s train of thought, so he didn’t follow, but stayed where he was, watching Yan Jin from afar.

The tourists releasing lanterns gradually obscured Yan Jin’s figure, and Yan Jin had now reached the area with the most lanterns.

Most of the lanterns on the river now had intricate and luxurious patterns painted on them, and only one lantern had no patterns at all, looking plain to the extreme, completely different from the surrounding lanterns.

Yan Jin felt that the person who released this lantern must be someone who didn’t pay attention to appearances and had a broad mind.

That lantern looked simple, but the candlelight wasn’t weak at all, shining brightly, making Yan Jin, who was searching for Yu Shu’s lantern, unable to resist looking in its direction.

For some unknown reason, Yan Jin reached out and picked it up.