Engagement.
Another year went by, and Xu Musen also turned twenty, twenty-one by traditional age counting, or even twenty-two considering the virtual age and twenty-three with the additional age... In the blink of an eye, he was nearing thirty.
It wasn't too early to think about the major life events.
After all, both Xu Musen's and An Nuannuan's families were quite conservative when it came to traditional customs.
Though An Nuannuan's family had given their tacit approval to the couple's cohabitation, it was still the girl who "suffered the loss" in such arrangements.
Young people are headstrong, and when it comes to aligning values on various aspects, there's often a lack of consideration.
If anything went wrong and they split up in the meantime, it would be almost equivalent to a second marriage for the girl.
Hence, taking their relationship to the next level was also a form of security.
