Then she gathered a handful of snow and rolled it on the ground into a huge snowball for the head and placed it on the body. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

She also had the Palace Attendant find a carrot and some small coal balls to make the snowman’s eyes and prominent nose.

She found a small iron bucket to put on the snowman’s head as a hat, and wrapped a red cloth around the snowman’s neck as a scarf.

A clumsy yet adorable snowman was completed.

People watching from afar curiously stared at this novel snowman, all having a slight urge to give it a try themselves.

After making one snowman, Su Yan began building another snowman right next to it.

This snowman was taller, and she chose a gray cloth strip as a scarf, making it clear it was a male snowman.

The two snowmen were so close, they seemed to be cuddling, and from a distance, it appeared full of warmth.

Chu Yuxiao walked down the steps one by one, heading towards Su Yan.

His eyes carried a hint of a smile, glancing at the snowmen and then at Su Yan busying herself in front of them, his thin lips curling up slightly.

As he reached Su Yan, she turned around at the sound, just meeting Chu Yuxiao’s gaze.

Realizing he saw her building the snowmen, she blushed in slight embarrassment.

"Why are you here? Weren’t you in the Imperial Study?" Su Yan asked, her eyes flickering.

With the coming of spring, Chu Yuxiao planned to go to battle again, so he was very busy this winter.

His gaze fell on Su Yan’s reddened hands, his eyes flashing.

He then took her hands and tucked them into his embrace, pressing them firmly with his warm hands through her fur coat and chided, "On such a cold day, you still want to play outside, aren’t you afraid of catching a cold?"

"My hands are cold," Su Yan tried to pull her hands back, but he held them in place.

Left with no choice, Su Yan curled up her palm, not daring to press her hands directly through his thin inner garment onto his body.

Her hands, numb from the cold, gradually regained feeling in his embrace.

Looking into his eyes, Su Yan smiled and said, "Look at the snowmen I built, aren’t they nice? One is you, the other is me."

Chu Yuxiao glanced over, continuing to chide, "Just for this, you’ve been out here for almost two hours. Now, not only your hands are cold, but your feet must be too."