The blizzard shows up very suddenly, a clear day to whiteout conditions within minutes. Shen Yuan can take some well-earned pride in the fact that he keeps both his head and his patrol group together, and gets everyone into shelter before anyone gets hit with anything worse than messed-up hair and wind-whipped cheeks. Unfortunately, this is exactly what Trench intended him to do.

Speed dating? Well, okay. It's not like they can turn right back around and leave, so he lets his patrol group to amuse themselves however they want and accepts a cup of hot cocoa from the bar in the corner of the dating hall. He's really just looking for a place to sit when he sees --

"Shige?" Shen Yuan covers his mouth with one hand to stifle a shocked little giggle, turning it into a cough instead. "What are you doing here?" Immediately he starts looking around for Lan Xichen; it just doesn't make any sense for Jin Guangyao to be in a place like this alone.