They had arrived in the afternoon, and the subway was still quite empty at the time. Now, however, it was packed wall-to-wall. He opted to take a taxi back.
In the car, Xue Rui hesitated for a long time before finally sending both Lin Ruoxi's and Yu Minlan's phone numbers to Gu Muxue.
'She must have figured that since Lin Ruoxi and I are together, she could contact the people around me if she couldn't get ahold of me.'
And then, he started to feel anxious.
'What would she say to the little lass?'
The more he thought about it, the more his curiosity gnawed at him.
After getting out of the car, the group took a stroll down a nearby street.
"Hey, handsome! Come on in for a bite?" the owner of a small roadside restaurant called out to the passersby.
Xue Rui was in no mood to be called 'handsome' right now. He put his arm around the girl's shoulders, his eyes darting to his phone screen from time to time.
