Jiang Yu and Shen Xinyi were both dumbstruck.

No, hang on, sister.

You can pull a move like that?

You were the one who got in the back first. If you weren't going to sit up front, were the two of us supposed to?

Good grief.

You must be desperate for a man, pulling a trick like that!

That was what the two of them were thinking. Naturally neither was going to say anything against Zhang Ruowei with Zhao Ming right there — but Jiang Yu had her phone out, laying into her in the group chat.

Zhang Ruowei read the messages on the sly and typed back, smiling. "Settle down, settle down. Your big sister is teaching you how to land a man. Watch and learn."

Jiang Yu: "Shameless."

Shen Xinyi: "No shame at all."

Zhang Ruowei: "That's enough out of you two. Any more nonsense and when we get back to the dorm this empress will have you disciplined. /threat/ /threat/ /threat/"

She locked her phone, put it back in her bag and opened the conversation herself. "Where did Xu Ye say we're eating tonight?"

"The IFC. Over by the Oriental Pearl Tower."

"Oh."

"Where have you all been in Shanghai?"

"The Bund, Ocean Park, Shiliupu Wharf, the museum, Yu Garden… that's about all so far."

Zhao Ming asked, "You've never been to Happy Valley?"

"No. We only have time in the holidays, and in the holidays the tickets are expensive."

Hearing that, Zhao Ming thought: there's the opening.

He said quickly, "I've got a way to get VIP tickets for Happy Valley — the kind where you don't have to wait in line. Whenever you want to go, just tell me and I'll take you."

"Really? Those tickets must be expensive, though."

"Not expensive. And anyway, when we go out there's no sense in you girls paying. I'll get it, obviously."

"That's too much."

"It's nothing."

Listening to Zhao Ming and Zhang Ruowei go back and forth, Jiang Yu got goosebumps all over from sheer secondhand embarrassment.

Zhang Ruowei. Zhang Ruowei.

Didn't we go to Happy Valley…