Yu Tian felt like she was completely defeated and in disarray.

She ran out of the hospital in a panic. Walking on the street, listening to the sounds of traffic on both sides, she still had a strong sense of unreality.

She had wanted to take control in front of Yan Ming, but frustratingly, her inexperienced self seemed no match for him.

So tonight would be the final battle with her back against the wall.

Tonight, she absolutely couldn’t show weakness.

She had to be more in control than Yan Ming, mastering all the rhythm.

So, should she study in advance?

Yu Tian returned to her studio, locked the door, and downloaded a small film on her phone. But after secretly watching for just a few minutes, she closed it with a flushed face.

She switched to one explaining various positions, but this time she lasted even shorter.

It was simply… simply too embarrassing.

Yu Tian decided to give up.

Fortunately, in the afternoon, Ren Yali sent several orthopedic science videos shot by Jiang Yuming, so Yu Tian threw herself into post-production editing work.

Once she entered work mode, time passed quickly.

After finishing editing and uploading the video, Yu Tian began looking up information about graduate and doctoral programs at her alma mater, contacting her desired supervisors.

After finishing all this, she looked at the time and suddenly realized it was already the time she had arranged to meet Yan Ming.

This time, both of them ate dinner somewhat absent-mindedly. Almost by tacit agreement, Yan Ming took Yu Tian’s hand and walked onto the escalator leading to the underground parking garage of the commercial building where the restaurant was located.

Yan Ming had chosen to park in a relatively remote area of the parking lot, so there weren’t many people on the escalator connecting this area to the underground garage.

But Yu Tian felt like everyone present could see through what she and Yan Ming were going to do next. Her heart pounded like a robber carrying gold bars after robbing a bank—both boldly shocking and timidly paranoid.

As if to avoid suspicion, Yu Tian secretly pulled her hand away from Yan Ming’s. Yan Ming paused but said nothing, looking very compliant. He even seemed to cooperate with Yu Tian’s attempt to avoid suspicion by stepping down two levels on the escalator with his long legs, putting Yan Ming below and Yu Tian above, forcibly creating distance between them.

Yu Tian felt a bit embarrassed and glanced at Yan Ming reproachfully, whispering: “There’s no need to avoid suspicion to this extent.”

Standing on the escalator step lower than Yu Tian, Yan Ming turned around, raised an eyebrow, and smiled: “I’m not trying to avoid suspicion.”

It was then that Yu Tian realized that after going down two steps, Yan Ming was now about the same height as her.

His eyes looked straight into hers, focused and serious. Then, without any mental preparation, Yu Tian was pulled into his arms, and Yan Ming’s lips pressed down on hers.

This usually steady and aloof man, with intimacy and slight childishness, kissed Yu Tian.

Girls on the opposite ascending escalator saw this scene and couldn’t help but take out their phones.

Yan Ming acted as if he saw nothing, just holding Yu Tian’s face like opening a shell to retrieve a pearl, kissing her, and leaving her nowhere to escape.

She didn’t want to escape either.

The earlier anxiety and fear seemed to disappear. Yu Tian actively deepened the kiss, mischievously separating before things got too intense, looking at Yan Ming’s eyes filled with slight desire and dissatisfaction, staring at his moist lips, then pouncing to kiss him again.

Yan Ming was finally overwhelmed by Yu Tian’s role reversal, and more and more passersby were filming them, with some even recognizing Yu Tian and Yan Ming.

“Hey, isn’t that the Kiss Cam couple from the livestream…”

Yu Tian almost wanted to cover her face with her hands. She pulled a baseball cap from her bag and quickly put it on, wishing she could cover most of her face.

“Shy now?” Yan Ming was somewhat amused. “Then let’s run.”

The next second, Yu Tian felt Yan Ming take her hand. Before she could react, she was pulled along by Yan Ming, instinctively following him as they ran.

The two ran to Yan Ming’s car, with Yu Tian still somewhat out of breath.

This time Yan Ming drove an SUV with a tall body. Yu Tian bent over slightly to rest due to her panting, and her entire body was completely hidden by the car.

Yan Ming remained calm and composed, not flushed or breathless. He stood tall and straight, looking at Yu Tian, still ready to tease.

“Poor stamina.”

But who knows how widely that Kiss Cam video had spread. Just standing by the car like this, a girl parking not far away recognized him, let out a short surprised cry, then walked toward Yan Ming.

“Hello, would it be convenient to take a photo together?” The other person obviously hadn’t seen Yu Tian hidden behind the car at first, and introduced herself to Yan Ming: “I’m also an up-streamer. I participated in the platform’s event that day and saw you then.”

Yu Tian had no impression of the girl’s face, but as soon as she spoke, Yu Tian knew who it was.

It was one of the girls who had attacked Yu Tian behind the screen that day for no reason, spreading rumors that she was a mistress, and she was the one who had spoken the most ill of her. That’s why Yu Tian had such a vivid impression of her voice.

The other person was dressed provocatively, swaying her hips as she walked toward Yan Ming. Getting closer, she finally saw there was someone beside Yan Ming, but because Yu Tian was wearing a baseball cap, she obviously couldn’t recognize her immediately.

Yu Tian had just spent the afternoon buried in editing several videos, wearing a simple T-shirt and jeans, nothing like the glamorous outfit from the platform event, with her hair just tied in a casual ponytail.

Seeing Yu Tian, the girl indeed froze, but unsure of her identity, she frowned slightly: “Are you… ‘Little Fish Loves Candy’?”

Indeed, one should be exquisite down to every hair, even when taking out the trash, because you never know in which small scene of daily life you’ll encounter someone you dislike. After all, in Yu Tian’s heart, the more she disliked someone, the more brilliantly she wanted to live in front of them, giving them a hard slap in the face—this was her life creed.

But now…

The other person had exquisite makeup in a sexy, hot girl style, while she was in plain casual wear.

Yu Tian didn’t want to be recognized by the other person at this moment.

She deliberately pinched her voice: “No, you’ve mistaken me.” To increase credibility, in her panic, she pointed at Yan Ming: “I’m his sister.”

The girl across from her indeed smiled and greeted Yu Tian, then focused all her attention on Yan Ming.

“Mr. Yan, I heard from platform people that Jiuyou is about to launch a new female-oriented game and is looking for collaborative streamers. I used to do game streaming, and I’m quite interested. Would it be convenient to exchange contact information?”

Although she spoke of dignified collaboration, her face was full of obvious ulterior motives.

Right, even if she and Yan Ming had that Kiss Cam kissing footage, they weren’t married. Celebrity couples in passionate relationships had such high breakup rates every year, let alone ordinary people like herself and Yan Ming.

This girl believed in the motto “if there’s grass with an owner, I’ll come loosen the soil,” completely undeterred by Yu Tian’s presence. She slightly tilted her body to ensure she displayed her superior body lines perfectly in front of Yan Ming, her beautiful eyes filled with naked ambition.

Who wouldn’t want a man like Yan Ming?

Yu Tian wavered between indignation and self-esteem, wanting both to reveal her identity and slap the other person in the face, while feeling her outfit really lacked presence.

But she didn’t expect Yan Ming to act faster than her.

He almost without hesitation refused the other person—

“Not convenient for photos, and not convenient to add contact information.” Yan Ming pointed at Yu Tian: “My sister would mind.”

“Ah…” The other person was indeed somewhat surprised: “But…”

Before the other person could speak again, Yan Ming pulled Yu Tian into his arms, smoothly removed her baseball cap, then bent down to give Yu Tian a kiss.

After the kiss, Yan Ming still held Yu Tian tightly, saying calmly, “It’s this kind of sister, so she would mind very much.”

His generous and unabashed attitude finally made the previously righteous other person uncomfortable.

The female upstreamer hadn’t expected that the person in front of her was Yu Tian herself. She stared for a moment, then glared at Yu Tian as if she had appeared out of thin air, stammering in justification: “There’s no need to be so petty. I was just thinking there might be possibilities for future collaboration…”

Unfortunately, Yan Ming mercilessly exposed her excuse: “Jiuyou’s business isn’t under my management either. I’m just an ordinary ophthalmologist. Last time I only went to substitute for my father at the event for my girlfriend. But you could indeed register for ophthalmology if you can’t recognize people.”

He subtly glanced at the other person who had completely failed to recognize Yu Tian earlier, then ignored the girl completely, looking at Yu Tian with completely different, gentle eyes: “Let’s go, get in the car.”

Although she couldn’t outdo the other person in terms of clothing, Yu Tian felt her heart pounding, feeling that this was more satisfying than encountering the other person while dressed well.

At this moment, Yu Tian finally realized that she no longer needed others’ recognition, nor did she need satisfaction from getting back at people, because other people were no longer important.

If happiness itself were already big enough, then there was no room for other negative emotions.

When one was too busy being happy, how could there be leisure to worry about other things?

What need was there for gorgeous clothing? True love didn’t care about these shallow appearances. What mattered was always each other, just as Yan Ming in a white coat and Yan Ming in an expensive suit were equally dazzling in Yu Tian’s eyes.

Yu Tian suddenly no longer wanted to put on airs or pretend to have some kind of presence in front of Yan Ming, or to grasp some kind of initiative.

There were always people preaching that love required techniques, that relationships between men and women needed careful arrangement, that women must firmly grasp the initiative. But they forgot that when meeting the right person, none of these complicated procedures and methods were needed.

In her relationship with Yan Ming, Yu Tian had almost stepped on every landmine—a terrible first meeting, the “sibling relationship” that constrained her from having further thoughts, a past full of misunderstandings, clumsy probing, repeated embarrassing social deaths…

It could be said that every step was wrong, yet ultimately led to the right ending.

Like a battle destined to be won, it was already predetermined.

Even her clumsy, panicked self, even her disheveled self, even her unglamorous, hurt, and frustrated self—showing all this in front of Yan Ming was safe.

Without the need for deliberate techniques and pretense, Yu Tian already possessed the most comfortable and pure relationship in the world.

Everything with Yan Ming hadn’t even had a single detail that was planned, yet one accident after another had constituted wonderful and romantic life segments, ultimately giving Yu Tian the man before her, making her want to be happy with him for a long time.

Yu Tian pressed down on her nervously racing heart and picked up her phone.

Almost simultaneously, Yan Ming’s peripheral vision glanced over: “Who are you calling?”

He looked casual, but his tone cared very much.

Yu Tian smiled: “Calling my mom.”

Yan Ming froze: “Is Auntie okay? Her eyes should be recovering well.”

“She’s fine, I just think I need to tell her in advance that I won’t be coming home tonight.”

Yan Ming paused: “Then I need to stop at a convenience store later.”

“Hm?”

Yan Ming’s voice was somewhat unnatural: “There are still some things I need to buy.”

“What?”

He looked at Yu Tian subtly: “Didn’t you say you still want to pursue your studies and don’t plan to have children for now?”

Now Yu Tian finally understood what Yan Ming needed to buy.

She remembered those positions and clips she had seen in the small videos, and suddenly blushed, not knowing where to put her hands and feet.

But looking at the man beside her, although nervous, she didn’t feel the imagined panic and anxiety.

Because she was already prepared.

Yu Tian had once read in medical books that the human eye has nearly 120 million rod cells and only 6 million cone cells, but cone cells are indispensable because rod cells perceive weak light, dim vision, and colorless vision, while cone cells perceive bright light, bright vision, and colored vision.

Losing cone cells, humans lose color.

At this moment, Yu Tian thought that Yan Ming was like her cone cells, similarly bringing brilliance to her life.

He was the right person.