Chapter 170 On What Grounds Do I?

That evening, Yang Fan explicitly stated that he wanted to sleep with Lin Xi, as he wanted to give Lin Ruo a proper rest.

Lin Ruo did not say much and went to sleep by herself. She took Lin Xi back to the bedroom and lay down, holding her in her arms.

Lin Xi was playing on her phone beneath the blankets, and Yang Fan was looking at her screen as well.

"Is there a separate group chat you guys have? Pull it up so I can take a look!"

Lin Xi obediently opened it. Yang Fan reached his hands out in front of Lin Xi, typed a character, and sent a greeting!

"Sister Lin Xi!"

"Sister Lin Xi never chats normally. How come she popped up today?"

"That's probably not Sister Lin Xi. Sister Lin Xi never types words, she only uses punctuation marks!"

...

Yang Fan felt a secret thrill and asked, "How do you think I should tease them?"

"I don't usually talk much, they're definitely going to guess it's you!"

"It's fine, go to sleep first. I'll chat with them for a bit," Yang Fan said.

Lin Xi nodded and closed her eyes!

The chat group became active again!

"I knew for sure that she isn't Sister Lin Xi!" Wang Yun said.

"I don't think so either!"

...

Yang Fan rolled his eyes and then stubbornly insisted that it was indeed her! Anyway, they had no way of knowing for sure!

"Well then, Sister Lin Xi, didn't I mention in the group chat recently which guy has been constantly calling me and asking me out for the night?"

Yang Fan froze...

"That's right, Sister Lin Xi, let me ask you too: whose heart did I give my first kiss to? This is something husband doesn't know about."

Yang Fan had a complete mental breakdown and directly sent a voice message.

"How many green hats have you all put on my head?!"

A flurry of voice messages immediately flooded the group!

"Husband, we knew it was you. If we didn't say that, would you have ever confessed it was you?" Xia Yufei said.

"You've given yourself away. Little trickster, you still wanted to fool us!"

...

Yang Fan was dumbfounded. His wives were smarter than one another; there was simply no escaping their clutches!

He miserably put away his phone and fell asleep holding Lin Xi. Of course, where his hands ended up wandering in the middle of the night was anyone's guess.

The next day, Yang Fan woke up early. He woke up quite early indeed—at five o'clock. With a beauty cradled in his arms, he was thrilled.

"If you really can't hold it in, then don't. I told you long ago that I am yours."

"I can hold it in. Go back to sleep for a little longer. I didn't even realize you woke up so early too!" Yang Fan said.

"It's just a habit. Whenever someone wakes up near us, we wake up too," Lin Xi explained.

"Ah, right, I forgot you girls always have to be aware of your surroundings!"

"Don't hold it in anymore, come on. You must be so uncomfortable like this," Lin Xi said.

Yang Fan made no move. He simply tightened his embrace. Whatever he said went—now was not the time!

"Didn't I already tell you?"

"Then let me use another method." Lin Xi slid down.

Yang Fan immediately pulled her back up into his arms. What a silly girl she was!

"Actually, I'm extremely curious. How do you and your sister train in temptation and anti-temptation?" Yang Fan asked.

"It's very complicated, and you have to start practicing from childhood!"

"So you really don't ever feel tempted?" Yang Fan asked.

"No. Master said that the moment you let your guard down is the beginning of your physical surrender. Therefore, our anti-temptation training only works against people we don't love! Of course, nobody has ever really tried to tempt us anyway, because ever since we debuted, we've never met our match!"

"Alright then!" Yang Fan shook his head...

"It's snowing outside!"

"No way?" Yang Fan hurriedly got up to take a look, and sure enough, everything was a blanket of white—it really was snowing!

Those people who went back last night were probably all stuck on the road now. Serves them right for insisting on leaving overnight—asking for trouble!

Fortunately, though, they had left last night; otherwise, they genuinely wouldn't have been able to leave today at all!

Snowy days were best spent lying in bed, but today they needed to go to the Jiang family estate. The only question was: how would they get there when it was still snowing outside?

He got back into bed and opened his phone to check the company group chat.

Aside from Liu Haoyu and Qian Xue'er, who had made it to the resort, everyone else was halfway on the road. Logically speaking, it had only started snowing around one o'clock in the morning, so they should have already made it back.

However, they had to be romantic and insisted on leaving during the day and staying at hotels at night, bringing this disaster upon themselves!

Yang Fan let out a gloating chuckle. It was fantastic that they couldn't make it back!

"The car won't be able to get out either. Nobody clears the snow around our area at all, and with the ground temperature this low, it's definitely iced over already!"

"It's fine. We'll hold hands and walk for a stretch, and once we get further up, we can have Jiang Huai send a car to pick us up," Yang Fan smiled.

At eight o'clock in the morning, Yang Fan led Lin Ruo and Lin Xi out the door. In his own words: the snowy roads are slippery, so it's better to stick together.

He also presumptuously grabbed Lin Ruo's hand. Today, the two sisters were wearing down jackets—completely black from top to bottom, inside and out. This was their consistent style; they simply never wore any other colors.

The snow outside was still heavy, and the three of them squeezed together as they walked.

"My hands are cold."

"Then who told you to hold them? Put your own hands in your own pockets!" Lin Ruo pulled her hand out of Yang Fan's grip.

"My pockets aren't warm. I want to put my hands in your pockets!"

Yang Fan thrust his hands in—not into his side of the pockets, but instead, with an ingenious maneuver, he wrapped his arms around both Lin Ruo and Lin Xi and pushed his hands into their outer pockets.

"You..."

"Don't move! If you move again, the three of us are going to fall together!" Yang Fan warned.

However, walking side by side on this snow was truly impossible for the three of them. They had barely taken two steps when Yang Fan's foot slipped, and tragedy struck...

A journey of one kilometer took over half an hour. Once past that stretch, however, uncle and auntie sanitation workers were out on the streets clearing the snow!

They cleared it as it fell, and the number of cars on the street had dwindled significantly—or rather, there were practically none at all. On such a snowy day, who would want to go out?

The only vehicle was the one sent by Jiang Huai, and the three of them got in.

"I told you to walk by yourself, but you insisted on walking with all three of us. See? You fell!" Lin Ruo scolded.

"It's about the mood. Don't you think falling together is quite romantic?"

...

"Where is the wedding being held?" Yang Fan asked.

"In Jiang Town," the driver replied. He was the very same man who had been ordered by Jiang Tao to hunt down Jiang Huai that day, two of whose companions had been killed by Lin Ruo.

As for the rest of them, they had ingested Lin Ruo's poison; with Lin Ruo around, they felt an involuntary terror.

"I've never been to Jiang Town before!" Yang Fan said. Jiang Town wasn't actually a town; rather, it was a sprawling estate owned by the Jiang family, featuring an all-in-one setup for dining, drinking, and entertainment, much like a resort!

Naturally, it was certainly much better than a resort! After all, the Jiang family was immensely wealthy. Even though Jiang Huai and Jiang Tao were currently vying for the succession, Jiang Huai was, after all, the direct grandson of the Jiang family head. For a direct grandson's wedding, the family would surely spare no expense.

The road was covered entirely in snow, though fortunately the car had high performance. A heavy snowstorm like this meant that the wedding timing was truly unfortunate.

"Young Master Han, Young Master Shao!" Seeing the two men standing at the entrance, Yang Fan took each of them by the hand and walked over!