Chapter 532 - 551: I Actually Kind of Like Winter

Just like that, it was the third.

Her vacation was already half over. If they didn’t go out and have some fun soon, they’d run out of time.

After breakfast, Jiang Qiuqiu invited Mo Si to go for a stroll in the city center.

He naturally agreed and put on his mask.

Jiang Qiuqiu could now look at him directly when he wore the mask. "Do you have to wear that mask every time we go out?"

"Mhm..." Mo Si nodded. "Otherwise, we might not be able to go out at all."

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"We’d get mobbed," he said seriously.

Even though she knew he was telling the truth, for some reason, Jiang Qiuqiu found it a little funny watching him say it so matter-of-factly.

She locked the door to her place, and they walked to the small villa next door to get the Hovercar.

Mo Si drove the Mecha Hovercar, taking Jiang Qiuqiu toward the city center.

On the way, Jiang Qiuqiu stared at him the entire time.

For a long, long time.

Mo Si finished planning the route and switched to auto-navigation mode. Then he immediately turned his head. "Why do you keep staring at me?"

"You’re making it hard for me to drive."

"Whoa, hold on a minute, Mo Si. If you can’t drive properly just because I looked at you a few times, your self-control must be pretty weak." Jiang Qiuqiu rolled her eyes at him.

Mo Si replied, "Don’t underestimate your charm."

"If it were anyone else, I wouldn’t care."

She stifled a laugh. He really was being direct. "Alright, I’ll stop looking. You can go back to driving."

"You can look at me now. I’ve switched on the auto-cruise. So why were you staring at me earlier?"

"It feels like you switch from being Mo Si to being Black Hole, and then back again... Hmm? It’s like I have two boyfriends? The kind with totally different styles, even."

"So which one do you like more?"

Jiang Qiuqiu hesitated for a moment. "Do you want me to be honest?"

"Yes, I do."

"The you right now, I guess. You know I prefer the energetic, youthful type. The thirty-nine-year-old you looks too... austere." The moment she finished speaking, Mo Si took off his mask. A second later, a pair of fluffy ears popped out on his handsome face. "How about this?"

She quickly changed her tune. "On second thought, maybe Mo Si is cuter."

"You know me, this is my favorite style."

She grinned, her eyes crinkling at the corners.

Mo Si thought, ’I can’t have taken this mask off for nothing.’ After pressing a button to activate the Mecha Hovercar’s sun shields, he quickly leaned over to the passenger seat on the right.

(A long stretch of onomatopoeia—tsk, tsk, smack, smack—has been omitted here.)

By the time they reached the city center a long while later, Jiang Qiuqiu’s hair was already a little disheveled.

The vehicle was parked in a designated lot. When they stepped out of the car, the wind felt a little cold, but only just.

Federation Star had four distinct seasons. Once winter passed, spring would soon arrive. In another month or so, around the time school started, the last traces of winter would be gone for good.

On the way to the movie theater, Mo Si said, "You’ll have to switch out that padded jacket soon."

"It’ll be too hot to wear this in another week or two."

"Yeah, winter’s finally over."

"You don’t like winter?" Mo Si asked.

Jiang Qiuqiu hummed in agreement. "I’m not a big fan of the cold seasons."

"I see..." Mo Si’s gaze darkened for a moment, as if he were peering through the sky to see the distant Pole. "I actually quite like winter."

’It’s a calm and gentle season. Just a little cold, with a bit of snow.’

They reached the movie theater before they knew it.

Times had changed, and movie theaters had leveled up significantly. They’d gone from the "XX Theaters" of the past to the current "Ultra-Holographic Time Cinema," which sounded pretty epic.