It was half-past seven in the evening when Fu Xiaoyuan returned to Yanyuan with Xu Sheng. The moment he stepped inside, a clamor drew his attention to the living room, where he found Rong Jin and Xu Ping hunched over their phones on the sofa, engrossed in a game. From his vantage point, his gaze fell on Rong Jin, who was curled up in the armchair to the right, her knees drawn up toward her chest.