[ some humor can be taken, he guesses, since they'll likely make a public appearance or two or five together, come the time the news rolls out. if their two nations want to continue the good relations, then surely they'll come to some kind of arrangement while they're at it. chang geng can see it playing out easily.

their former classmates would lose their absolute minds over it, and he knows it. "we knew them!" coupled with "we knew it!" how tiring. ]

Daughters of royalty, more often than not, are meant to be seen and not heard in old fashioned opinion. Act a certain way, marry a certain person, speak little but from a script... I think I'm largely meant to stay out of trouble, but not expected to do much, if I'm gauging from Li Feng's general attitude towards me. It puts us into very interesting positions.

[ please just let them both go back to what they were doing. ]

But learning for our own sakes will benefit us, while they think it benefits them. And there are always loopholes to exploit.