Chapter 743 - 410: 101 Proposals (Part 4)

During the period, Li Peifeng was patiently waiting, and when he saw Zhao Qingge come out, he tacitly did not ask her why she put on makeup. Instead, he pointed to the hillside on the southern side outside the window. "Let’s go there. It’s higher up and has a better view, but it’s just a bit farther."

Zhao Qingge glanced over and thought to herself that it was definitely more than a bit farther, at least twice as far, causing her to frown. "Can we make it back before five o’clock?"

"We can. If not, I’ll carry you, which is faster."

Zhao Qingge didn’t reply, but when she reached the door to leave, she glanced at Li Peifeng again. "Dress warmer."

"...Okay."

Li Peifeng’s first reaction was to refuse because he really didn’t need it, but after hesitating for half a second, he put on a smile and pretended to look for a thick coat to drape over himself.

He wasn’t cold and didn’t need a coat, but he couldn’t always refuse Zhao Qingge’s concern...

I hope that if I don’t refuse you, you won’t refuse me later either!

"The others are coming out too."

"Yeah, I see them."

"Where are they heading?"

The three girls—Huang, Wu, and Xu—had set off first and were already a third of the way up the ridge on the northern side. Wu Wenyue unintentionally looked back and saw the two in the car heading in another direction, giving a dry laugh: "Where to? Probably somewhere private and out of our sight to propose."

Xu Manning tightened her clothes around her and hummed slightly. "Indeed, witnessing him getting rejected would be awkward. It’s better to do it privately."

"They’re walking pretty fast. I’m already out of breath... Slow down, you guys too."

"Hey, I can already see the tip of the snowy mountain."

"Let’s walk ahead a bit more and take a group photo at the top."

While the three girls were hiking, they couldn’t help but keep an eye on Li Peifeng and Zhao Qingge’s direction. When the three of them reached halfway up the mountain, the two of them had also gotten to the foot of the distant hill...

"Xiaofeng picked her up."

"Carrying... ha!"

Xu Manning, seeing the two familiar figures in the distance, went from holding hands to the man carrying the woman, gritted her teeth, and spoke breathlessly with a hint of envy: "Why hasn’t anyone carried me when I’m this tired? She only walked a few steps and already got carried... Yueyue, can you carry me?"

"I’d rather you just tell me you want me dead!"

Wu Wenyue rolled her eyes, resting her hands on her knees and panting. At this altitude of at least five thousand meters, people who live on flatlands usually struggle to even walk on level ground, let alone climb a mountain while carrying someone. That would truly be life-threatening.

"I’ve brought an oxygen tank, if you guys don’t feel well, take a breath of oxygen."

Huang Tianxuan weakly patted her small satchel, not bothering to look in Li Peifeng’s direction, and continued climbing.

"My life is so tough, everyone else has a man to carry them, but I don’t have anyone... Ahhh..."

"Save your energy for the climb, stop complaining."

Xu Manning’s face was flushed, she sniffed and continued trudging on while muttering softly: "Do you think she’ll say yes?"

"Doubt it."

"They’ve hardly spoken a word to each other since that night."

Wu Wenyue and Huang Tianxuan discussed intermittently;

"Old Zhao is really angry."

"It’s a pity it’s too far to see clearly."

"Pretty much, you can make out the general posture. By the time we’re at the top, he probably will be down on one knee pulling out a ring."

"Hey, they’re really fast."

"It’s just Xiaofeng who’s fast. He really isn’t scared of altitude sickness, carrying Old Zhao and even... running?"

Li Peifeng was indeed running with Zhao Qingge on his back, which made the latter a bit fearful: "Slow down! I’m, I’m getting dizzy!"

"Alright."

Li Peifeng responded with a smile, then tightened his grip slightly to secure Zhao Qingge. He sighed, "The last time I carried you like this was in Hangzhou, that was a year ago."

"...Hmm."

"That time we had just had our first Shared Dream, and after that, you must have developed deep feelings for me, right? Otherwise, you wouldn’t have pretended to sprain your ankle so I could carry you, would you?"

"I wasn’t pretending!"

"Alright, you weren’t pretending."

Li Peifeng pursed his lips and smiled: "Then the Yun Xin Yue Xing person wasn’t you either? The one who asked for my nudes online, wasn’t you? The person who submitted love poetry using the Yun Xin Yue Xing TT account wasn’t you either?"

Zhao Qingge’s grip around his neck loosened, and her tone became stiff: "Put me down, I can walk myself."

But Li Peifeng wouldn’t let go. He felt that setting a tough stance at the foot of the mountain and half-forcefully carrying Zhao Qingge up was a great move. Although Zhao Qingge was still tough, her attitude was gradually softening.

"How’s this pace?"

"It’s fine."

The hill they were climbing wasn’t large, but given the high plateau environment, it was still quite a challenging climb, though Li Peifeng wasn’t bothered by it. Mainly because he ran too fast, causing Zhao Qingge to get dizzy easily.

Therefore, Li Peifeng kept a normal pace and when Huang, Wu, and Xu reached the summit on the northern ridge, he too, with Zhao Qingge on his back, climbed to the western peak.

Both groups reached the heights at the same time, and the three girls didn’t even bother to look at Mount Kailash but watched the dynamics between the two...

"He finally put her down."

"That beast is truly a donkey! A wild donkey of the highlands!!"

Xu Manning was extremely indignant, barely having the energy to curse, eagerly hoping the scene in her mind became a reality.

What was the scene she hoped for? It was surely Li Peifeng down on one knee, taking out a ring, Zhao Qingge waving her hands to refuse, her face turning dark, saying ’I don’t want to’ before turning away... Oh, what a pity, what a pity she wasn’t there, otherwise when Zhao Qingge rejected, she could calmly take the engagement ring and say with a compassionate smile; "If she doesn’t want to, I do~"