Chapter 56: Chapter 56: Friends, Cheers to Our Friendship
Editor: Atlas Studios
“Come, Team 173, what you see before you now is Sun Moon Mountain. Here we have the Tang-Tibet Ancient Road, Princess Spring, and the well-known Princess Wencheng Temple. During the era of Emperor Taizong of Tang, Princess Wencheng entered Tibet and married Songtsen Gampo—”
Tour guide Xiaoliang, wearing a headset and holding a red flag, led a group of about a dozen people here for a sightseeing and was explaining to them.
A woman was walking slowly, lagging behind the rest, her head covered with a black bucket hat, sunglasses hiding her palm-sized face, revealing only her rosy lips and fair chin.
Her long hair was tucked under the black hat. She wore dark blue jeans and a black leather jacket. A bag hung on her back, giving her a neat and handsome appearance.
Looking at a nine-meter-tall statue of Princess Wencheng in front of her, Wen Xian squinted slightly.
She was alone now. Since she had separated from Lu Xiao the day before, he had driven off and vanished from her sight.
She simply booked a characteristic Tibetan-style lodge in the town before and joined a semi-independent day tour group. Following the tour guide’s lead, she hitched a ride and grabbed a meal, taking in the scenery of the area.
In the morning, they had visited the Princess Wencheng Temple, the Chinese Geographical Boundary Marker, and the Ancient Path Museum. The guide had arranged for them to have their meals freely at a nearby inn.
Since this area was a tourist spot, the surrounding lodges, inns, and lively commercial streets were all complementary.
Everything had settled down, and Wen Xian stirred her butter tea leisurely with one hand while taking out her phone with the other. She opened WeChat and scrolled to a contact’s chat.
The contact had a profile picture of a lonely smoke in the desert.
It was very simple, clearly a picture of the sunset in the Uninhabited Area, and the name was even simpler—just his real name, Lu Xiao.
Wen Xian’s lips twitched slightly as she stared fixedly at his name…
How could there be such a man who was so serious, not understanding even a bit of trendy fashion?
Thinking this, Wen Xian’s gaze fell on her own middle-aged-stereotype lotus avatar and she fell silent: “…”
Lu Xiao was busy. Yesterday, while she was trying on clothing in a lingerie store and had not yet come out, he received a call outside. By the time she came out, he had already hurried to pay and leave.
They hadn’t even exchanged a few words before he was gone.
If it hadn’t been for her holding two sets of new lingerie he had bought for her, if it hadn’t been for the bandage on her hand, she might have doubted whether he had ever existed.
He had disappeared without hesitation, not even waiting for her to offer her phone number, WeChat—
Thinking this, Wen Xian couldn’t help but grit her teeth slightly, feeling utterly stifled and annoyed.
Damn it, he really held himself together, she had lost.
She had failed in seducing him in the changing room yesterday.
If it weren’t for her sneakily adding his WeChat, she might have never had any connection with him again in her lifetime…!
Lu Xiao’s WeChat was very monotonous, and he hadn’t even posted a single message in his Moments.
Wen Xian never expected that one day she would be holding her phone, specifically opening WeChat, staring at a man’s name, avatar, looking through his completely empty Moments, checking it eight hundred times a day…!
Angry as she was, she still wanted to know where he was at this moment, and what he was doing.
Her fingers typed something on the keyboard, but before sending, she deleted it.
After several back-and-forths, she took a deep breath and settled on sending just an emoji.
But that emoji was a bit… hard to describe.
Against a background of flowing ribbons and brocades, two clinking glasses, with golden words that sparkled: [Friends, cheers to our friendship.]
[Jiuge: Hahaha, a temporary separation, Sister Xian’s sneaky moves are high-energy, you guys understand!]