"Wow, there are so many people here!"
Outside Universal Studios, Spencer pressed her face against the car window, her eyes gleaming as she gazed at the sea of people outside.
Linn's primary industries were electronics, finance, and shipping; its tourism sector left much to be desired.
In other words, whatever a tourist could see in Linn, they could easily find in any other highly modernized city.
Because of this, Universal Studios had beco an indispensable part of any Linn travel guide.
Resting his chin on his hand, Yan Huan ignored the scenery outside and instead glanced at Spencer, unable to help but ponder her true motive for inviting him.
'She even went as far as writing off the remaining promised plundering opportunities. Could it be that she is planning sothing massive this ti?'
He thought to himself.
"Alright, I will just park the car right here."
Lin Wanwan parked the vehicle in the parking lot, looking over the control buttons of the high-end MPV with unfamiliarity.
After all, she usually drove that tiny little Drizzle Fish Head. When had she ever driven sothing like this?
"Click!"
The mont the car ca to a steady halt, Spencer dashed out ahead of everyone, looking around to figure out where the entrance was.
Yan Huan followed closely behind. Glancing at Yurianna next to him, he spoke up.
"Yurianna, you are not planning to pull any stunts today, are you?"
"..."
Hearing Yan Huan's ghostly tone, Yurianna imdiately averted her eyes with a guilty conscience. Scratching her cheek, she replied.
"N-no way, President..."
"..."
Yan Huan did not say a word, rely staring at her with deadpan eyes, clearly highly suspicious of this girl.
Unexpectedly, the air-headed secretary looked back at Yan Huan with an equally suspicious expression.
"More importantly, why did Spencer invite you too, President? Since when did you and Spencer get so close?"
"... Did you not co as well?"
"No, no, no, that is completely different!"
Yurianna waved her hands, speaking as if it were a matter of fact.
"That is because I am shaless! I usually crash the party even when people do not invite , let alone when I am actually invited..."
"..."
"Eh? Could it be that the person you like is Spencer?!"
"What nonsense are you spouting?"
Instead of answering properly, Yan Huan silently raised his hand and gave Yurianna a light flick on the forehead.
"Ouch!"
Yurianna clutched her head and took a step back, then quickly scampered away, rushing toward Spencer.
Spencer was still excitedly looking around when Yurianna suddenly charged over and hugged her. Annoyed, Spencer pushed at Yurianna and complained.
"It is so hot, why do you keep hugging ?"
"Eh? Why say that, Spencer? Do you not think hugging and cuddling is super comfortable?"
"Huh? What is comfortable about it?"
Spencer wore a puzzled expression, yet she refrained from using her Bull Strength to forcefully shove Yurianna away.
She had a strange tolerance for certain people.
Watching this scene unfold, Yan Huan thought to himself.
anwhile, the clinging Yurianna secretly wore an "all according to plan" expression on her face.
She slyly inspected Spencer's side profile, then stole a glance at Yan Huan behind them.
'Oh my, oh my, President...'
'With the super sixth sense of the Far Moon Newspaper Club's number one love reporter, I predict that the President is definitely hiding the sparks of romance.'
'That Ye Shiyu is his sworn older sister, so the President is unlikely to go the incest route. Pass.'
'An Le, although she is his childhood sweetheart, she always seems a bit lacking in confidence. Not much chance of winning there. Pass.'
'Bai Yi...'
'How should I put this... she seems almost too confident, to the point of being overly presumptuous. '
'Pass.'
'Sakuramiya is completely impossible, so...'
'Is the person the President likes actually Spencer?'
'What he says does not count, after all, the President loves being stubborn with his words more than anything.'
'Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth!'
'True or false feelings, one test will reveal all!'
"Hehehe..."
"What... what are you laughing at?"
"Ah, nothing! Spencer, let us get going! Walk this way, we do not have to queue up!"
"Oh, okay."
Seeing the excited Spencer being pushed along by the even more excited Yurianna, Yan Huan helplessly raised an eyebrow.
He looked back and saw that Lin Wanwan and Jiang Yun had already walked up beside him.
Following behind, the two boys were still standing far away by the car, seemingly having caught sight of sothing in a certain direction.
"Nino, Tatsuya Sakawa, let us go."
With that in mind, Yan Huan called out to remind them.
"Oh, oh, right away, President!"
His sudden voice seed to startle them, and they hurriedly turned their heads.
Realizing they were falling behind, they slowly jogged over to catch up.
"So, which zone are we hitting first?"
After entering the park and standing in front of the map, Yan Huan scanned the layout before asking Spencer.
"The Angry Little Pigs the parade!"
Spencer answered without a second thought, making Yan Huan shoot her a speechless look.
"... That only happens at night. We have to check out the other IP thes first, right?"
"Wait, what is an IP?"
Yan Huan blinked and pointed to several locations on the map, explaining.
"Harry Potter, Minions, Transforrs, Jurassic Park... Whichever of these movies you are interested in, we will go there first."
Spencer glanced at the IPs on the wall, all of which drew a complete blank in her mind. She then looked at the expressions on everyone else's faces, noticing that they seed to have seen them to varying degrees.
She blinked and hesitated.
"Umm..."
"Harry Potter! Harry Potter!"
Seeing her hesitate, Yurianna imdiately grew excited, only to receive another karate chop to the head from Yan Huan.
"You, be quiet."
"Ugh, fine..."
Jiang Nuannuan was right; Yurianna really could not read social cues.
Usually, when going out to play, if soone else was treating, you just followed the host's arrangents.
That was why, from start to finish, neither Lin Wanwan nor Jiang Yun had interrupted.
Only this idiot Yurianna had such a strong sense of main-character syndro.
After stopping the clueless Yurianna, Yan Huan looked back at Spencer and probed further.
"How about this: just pick whichever movie you have seen. If you have not seen any..."
"I-I have seen them all!"
Hearing this, Yan Huan raised an eyebrow.
Spencer fired back stubbornly. Then, to make her decision seem more fitting, she extended her hand and traced it across the map while studying her companions' expressions.
The mont she pointed to the Harry Potter zone, she caught sight of Yurianna's eyes instantly lighting up.
When she moved her finger to Jurassic Park, Yurianna imdiately pouted, putting on a pitiful expression.
Spencer glanced curiously at her own finger, then back at Yurianna, whose expressions changed with rhythmic predictability, as if Spencer held a remote control for her face.
Happy, pitiful, happy, pitiful, happy, pitiful, resentnt, resentnt, resentnt, resentnt...
"..."
But as she kept playing around, no matter how Spencer moved her finger, Yurianna's face was stuck on a single expression, her cheeks puffing out wider and wider.
"Smack!"
The next second, Yan Huan's hand pressed down on Yurianna's head, popping her expression and her puffed cheeks together like a balloon.
"Ugh..."
Yan Huan looked at Spencer, who was clearly clueless about any of the IPs, and could only suggest.
"If there is nothing you particularly want to go to, how about we just try the popular ones one by one? Is there anything you cannot go on? Like anything too thrilling..."
"I can ride anything, who are you looking down on?"
Hearing Yan Huan's words, Spencer imdiately cut him off.
Then, before she could see Yan Huan's doubtful expression, she huffed softly, planted her hands on her hips, and marched off in a random direction.
"Then let us go to that Ha... whatever Potter place first!"
"..."
"What is this thing?"
Spencer sat in the seat as the safety harness slowly lowered from above, locking firmly over her body.
The sensation of being restrained imdiately made her anxious, and she instinctively began trying to pry the harness off.
Sitting next to her, Yan Huan glanced at the admission ticket and said.
"It seems to be sothing called Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey... Hey, stop pulling on that. That is the safety harness to keep you from falling. You are going to break it."
"..."
Hearing this, although Spencer stopped yanking at the restraint, the tension on her face did not decrease one bit. She pursed her lips and asked.
"What... falling? Is this thing going to move later?"
"If it does not move, what is the point? It is even going to fly later."
"Fly?"
Spencer blinked, then imdiately lowered her head and resud aggressively prying at her safety harness.
"I-I am not playing anymore. My mobile phone is ringing."
"Ringing, my foot. I did not hear a thing."
"I do not care, I want to get off!"
"It is about to start, how can you get off now? Just sit still!"
"Ugh..."
"You are not scared, are you?"
"..."
Spencer's body stiffened slightly. She turned her head to glance at Yan Huan beside her, and upon eting his scrutinizing gaze, hastily averted her eyes, stubbornly declaring.
"... No, I am not."
"Liar."
"!!"
Hearing this, Spencer angrily whipped her head back to look at Yan Huan, only to see his gloating expression.
It was then she rembered that this was exactly what she had said this morning when exposing Yan Huan's lie.
Speaking of which, Spencer truly despised hypocritical people, but that did not an she was completely incapable of lying herself.
Moreover, Yan Huan had discovered that she was only particular about certain people.
She had a great relationship with An Le, but could anyone honestly say An Le never lied? What about Yurianna?
Not to ntion the others, like Jiang Yun and Nino...
He just did not know why she was so incredibly critical of him.
Now look, the boorang had co right back around, had it not?
"Hmph!"
Lacking any valid coback, she turned her head away, refusing to look at Yan Huan.
From this side profile, he could still see her slightly puffed, pale-white cheeks. Her aura inexplicably resembled the Golden Bomb Pig from Angry Little Pigs.
Just like the cookie she had given him.
Naturally, Yan Huan did not want to make things too difficult for Spencer, so he suddenly asked.
"Did you not fly here from the United Kingdom? That flight takes over ten hours. How did you handle that?"
Hearing this, Spencer turned back to look at Yan Huan, replying sowhat embarrassedly.
"I just sleep as soon as I get on the plane."
"... The whole ti?"
"How could I sleep the whole ti? The middle of the flight is very smooth. As long as I do not look outside and do not think about being up super, super high, I am fine."
"... What about during landing?"
"I just do this..."
Spencer reached out with both hands and pressed them fiercely against her ears, blocking them completely.
Then, she squeezed her eyes shut, scrunched up her little face, and lowered her head, looking exactly like a child refusing to listen to reason. The sight instantly made Yan Huan laugh out loud.
"That is it?"
"..."
"Spencer?"
"..."
'Good grief, did she just completely isolate herself?!'
Speechless, Yan Huan was just about to reach out and poke her shoulder when she happened to finish her demonstration and turned her head.
"That is exactly how..."
As soon as she turned, her eyes t Yan Huan's finger, which was hovering just a short distance from her lips.
Both of them froze slightly, exchanging a glance without saying a word.
Stare~
Instead, it was Yurianna, sitting beside them, who struggled to lean her head forward despite being restrained by her safety harness, keenly observing their actions.
Yurianna had intentionally arranged for the two of them to sit together.
As long as she forced them to spend high-intensity ti together all day long, even soone as tight-lipped as the President would eventually slip up.
'President, I will stalk you until eter—no, until I find out who you truly like!'
"..."
Spencer hastily leaned back a bit, and Yan Huan quickly withdrew his finger, clearing his throat to say.
"Your ability to block out the world is way too strong. You did not react at all when I just called you."
"That is exactly how it needs to be so I will not be scared!"
She said this with such righteous confidence that Yan Huan was left speechless.
"... Why do you not try not doing that? You will realize it is really not that scary."
"Clack-clack-clack-clack!"
Right at that mont, the entire ride chanism began to move.
"Eek!"
Spencer's face paled slightly. She imdiately ducked her head down again and reached up to desperately cover her ears.
"Ron, they are over there, hurry up and follow!"
"Vrmmm~"
As the surrounding lights flared to life, constructing the magical world of Harry Potter, the entire ride began simulating the weightless sensation of sitting on a flying broomstick.
"Wow!! This is... this is so thrilling!!"
Beside them, Yurianna—who had just vowed to heavily monitor Yan Huan—tossed everything to the wind the mont the ride started, staring excitedly at the unfolding scenes.
Yan Huan did not look at the performance in front of him. Instead, he turned his head to look at Spencer, who was curled up in her seat, clutching her head.
"Clang-rattle!"
"..."
Thinking for a second, Yan Huan reached out again and gently tapped the harness securing her.
No reaction.
It seed she was simply far too nervous.
"..."
Yan Huan lifted his finger a bit higher, this ti hovering right beside her cheek.
He hesitated for a second. That finger, which had hovered in front of her without ever taking the initiative to draw near, finally crept forward bit by bit until it rested against her cheek.
Gently, he poked her soft cheek, creating a slight indentation.
"!!"
The next second, Spencer nervously snapped her eyes open.
The entire ride had tilted, creating a sense of weightlessness, which made it look as though Yan Huan was gazing down at her from above.
Seeing her open her eyes, Yan Huan imdiately retracted his finger and spoke to her.
"Try relaxing!"
"..."
Spencer could not hear what he was saying; she only saw him opening his mouth and speaking to her amidst what felt like absolute silence.
Because it was too dark around them, Spencer could not read his lips.
Perhaps purely out of a desire to figure out what he was saying, in the next second, she slightly loosened her death grip over her ears.
"Hello children, has anyone seen a dragon?!"
"Alright, hurry up, we need to get to the Quidditch pitch imdiately!"
The surrounding clamor instantly flooded her ears, startling Spencer so much that she imdiately tried to cover her ears again.
Seeing this, Yan Huan grabbed her hand and shouted loudly.
"How will you know if you do not try? It is not that scary!"
"Huh?! I..."
Spencer's expression shifted slightly, but the next second, a dragon abruptly appeared on the screens around them.
The entire ride lurched violently, the surrounding music swelled passionately, and the atmosphere instantly beca tense and thrilling.
Spencer, who had just uncovered her ears, imdiately absorbed the sensory information in front of her. Staring at the massive red dragon before them, she scread.
"Such a huge dragon!!"
"..."
Watching her fully engrossed eyes reflect the image of the giant dragon chasing them on the screen, Yan Huan smiled faintly and prepared to pull his hand back.
But upon exerting a bit of force, he realized that at so point, she had tightly clamped her hand around his wrist.
Yan Huan paused for a mont, then imdiately glanced back at Yurianna behind him.
Seeing her screaming in hyper-excitent, Yan Huan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
But as he turned back around, feeling the warmth of her palm pressing against his skin, his expression still grew sowhat unnatural.
Catching a glimpse of Spencer's wide smile as she gradually imrsed herself in the atmosphere, his expression steadily relaxed as well.
He simply let her hold onto him, turning his own head to watch the performance playing out before them.
After exiting the ride, Spencer treated everyone to desserts and snacks.
The food inside the the park was incredibly expensive. This was a universal truth around the world; it basically boiled down to price-gouging tourists in every way possible.
So tourists, adopting the "we are already here anyway" mindset, would unwittingly get swept up in the atmosphere and shell out cash for things completely detached from market value.
For example, these snacks—a tiny bit of dessert and a drink dared to charge three digits. If it were not for Spencer treating, the rest of these Outer Campus students would absolutely never have opened their wallets for it.
And on top of that, you could not even get it right away after ordering; you still had to queue up.
So the current situation was: Spencer was treating, and everyone was scattering to pick up their respective orders.
"Is there really magic in this world?"
While Spencer, Yurianna, and Yan Huan were walking together to the beverage shop to pick up their desserts, Spencer suddenly posed this question. Hearing this, Yan Huan raised an eyebrow, while Yurianna crossed her arms and shook her head with a highly mature and rational air.
"Spencer, you are such a little dummy. All that stuff is fake. How could it possibly be real?"
'Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. A crow standing on a pile of coal, unable to see its own darkness.'
'And you actually have the nerve to critique her?'
"... But I think I have seen soone use magic before?"
"Cartoons do not count~"
"No, I an that Sakuramiya Hitomi from your Student Council. Also, it seems like I... might know it too?"
Yan Huan's expression shifted slightly, realizing that Spencer was talking about the modifier Sakuramiya Hitomi had used.
"Pfft!"
Upon hearing this, Yurianna imdiately covered her mouth and burst into giggles.
Then, she glanced at the magic wand rchandise they had bought nearby, walked over, picked one up, and handed it to Spencer.
"What is this?"
"It is a magic wand. Did you not say you knew magic? Do it like this, and you will know right away if you can use magic... Like this, and this..."
"Really?"
Yurianna whispered sothing secretively into the ear of the half-believing, half-doubting Spencer, making Yan Huan's scalp tingle.
'This girl actually can use magic, but the mont she activates it, she is going to start plundering people's things! Stop chanting random nonsense at her!!'
'You just want to watch the world burn, do you not?'
His face darkening, Yan Huan imdiately stepped forward and shoved Yurianna toward the dessert shop to pick up the food.
"Go, go, go, go get the food. Magic, my foot..."
"Hey?! I was just playing around with Spencer!"
After shoving Yurianna into the dessert shop, Yan Huan finally turned back to look at Spencer.
She was still curiously inspecting the wand in her hand, looking as if she genuinely believed the nonsense. Yan Huan's head throbbed just looking at her.
He quickly walked over, intending to correct whatever drivel Yurianna had fed her.
If Spencer ended up thinking that was actually magic and once again awakened the consciousness to actively use her modifier, it would be a total disaster.
"Spencer, do not..."
But the mont he approached, Spencer suddenly thrust the wand out, aiming it right at him.
"Tap~"
The tip of the wand poked precisely against Yan Huan's chest, pressing slightly into his shirt.
Yan Huan looked down at the wand pointing at his heart, then dazedly looked back up at Spencer.
Just as he was about to ask, "What are you doing?
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