Heaven Ascension Mountain Range’s ice and snow never melted throughout the ages. Green Luan Academy was also beautiful and secluded like before.

Gu Xinyin was sitting on a rattan chair with a blanket around himself, currently looking at Xiao Mingxuan[1] sitting across from him.

He looked at Xiao Mingxuan’s black robes that didn’t have a single crease on them, saying with a chuckle, “You’ve always been a fan of standing rather than sitting, so how did you end up so fat?”

Xiao Mingxuan shot Gu Xinyin a look, immediately unable to hold back his berating. “What kind of times are we already in now? Yet you can still tell this type of joke? Also, your joke isn’t funny at all.”

Gu Xinyin didn’t get upset, his smile instead growing wider. “You were never an excitable person to begin with, a guy with quite the poor temper. If my memory serves me right, you were definitely the one who scolded me the most. However, recently, you’ve always had this gloomy look on your face, not even scolding me anymore, so I really couldn’t get used to it.”

“If I don’t get angry and don’t scold you, you will instead feel strange?” Xiao Mingxuan pushed up his brass rimmed crystal glasses, saying angrily, “You’ll only feel happy if I scold you?”

“Some people, when they are by your...