I shook my head.

He smiled. "So, you can't believe everything in the book."

I was indifferent and stopped talking. It was late when we got back to the villa. The sky in the capital was getting gloomy again. It was probably going to snow again. There were several heavy flurries of snow in the Capital every year.

Sure enough, as Alice said, it snowed heavily on the first day of the new year. The white snowflakes lit up the whole room. I woke up early. To be precise, I didn't sleep all night. Jordan looked at me in a low voice. "Are you not feeling well?"

I shook my...