Chapter 158: Chapter 155: Then turn around and give it a try
A cold and towering man was applying a pink hand cream to his hands at a leisurely pace, his expression both stern and serious.
Well, that scene… was really too beautiful for words.
Truly a necessity for rugged men!
When Sang Nian approached again, he couldn’t help but chuckle twice and said, “Boss, you’re even using hand cream now?!”
Lu Xiao cast a cold glance over, “What’s wrong with that?”
Sang Nian rubbed his palms together, looked straight at the hand cream with a smile, and said, “The wind is pretty strong today. My hand seems a bit cracked from the cold. Boss, let me use some too.”
With that, he stretched out his hand.
However, as soon as he reached out his hand, he grasped at thin air as Lu Xiao pocketed the hand cream directly, his expression indifferent: “I don’t have any more, go buy your own!”
But Sang Nian hinted with his words: “But not everyone has a girlfriend who would thoughtfully buy cream for their boyfriend!”
As soon as he said that—
Lu Xiao’s body tensed for a moment, but in the next second, a sneer of mild mockery spilled from his lips, “That’s because you don’t have one.”
Zha Xi burst into unreserved laughter, looking at Sang Nian disheveled in the wind.
The downtime during work in the Uninhabited Area is always dull. Lu Xiao, not one to go to sleep early, would take the car out for a night patrol.
When speeding down the highway, the stars above his head and the vast Gobi all around, it seemed like he was the only person left in the world.
He had never felt time to be so relentlessly long before, but now, there seemed to be something called longing that magnified in the night, endlessly magnifying, invading his limbs and bones, every cell of his body.
After patrolling and pulling the car up to the entrance of his jurisdiction, it was already 10 pm.
He turned off the engine but did not immediately get out of the car, instead reclining in the driver’s seat with a look of weary resignation.
He was silent for quite a while before he finally took out his phone and opened the photo gallery.
He clicked on a few pictures, slowly, intently studying them.
His fingertips gently caressed the phone screen.
Knowing she was busy, his fingers hesitated several times over the WeChat input box but eventually still sent a message:
Lu Xiao: [Are you asleep?]
The standard dialogue of a straightforward man.
Lu Xiao had thought she wouldn’t reply so quickly because of work, but unexpectedly, she sent a message back very soon:
[Just finished with work, I’m on my way home now. What’s up, Captain Lu? Could it be that you’re missing me?]
Lu Xiao stared at the message: “…”
Suddenly, his chest heaved noticeably, and his eyes deepened as he replied:
[So, what am I to do about it?]
Wen Xian, on the other end receiving this message, didn’t reply for a good while. No one knew what she was thinking when she saw the message.
Several minutes later, Wen Xian finally sent a message:
[Lu Xiao, how much do you miss me?]
When Lu Xiao saw this message, he drew a deep breath, raised his hand, and pinched the back of his neck, rotating his head to produce a crackling sound.
He seemed to have never experienced such an almost uncontrollable feeling before, indeed it was uncontrollable, as his mind was completely filled with one person; the sensation was both foreign and excruciating.
He was standing in the darkness outside his jurisdiction, almost as if fused with the moonlight.
Unable to bear it any longer, he finally made a call.
The other side picked up.
There was a faint sound of wind on her side: “Hmm?”
Lu Xiao: “I miss you.”
Wen Xian went silent for a moment, then when she spoke again, she slowly said to him:
“Then turn around, try looking.”