Lost State of Mind
At three in the afternoon, Shen Wuxiao received a message from Hexi at the manor.
It was just a few simple words: "I'm already home."
Shen Wuxiao merely glanced at it, then replied with a detached "Oh" after a while.
Far away in Yancheng, Hexi had just returned home.
She had only just set her things down and gone to fill the bathtub, intending to take a nice soak and relax.
Then her phone chimed.
She knew Shen Wuxiao had replied.
She immediately ran out, an unconscious smile appearing on her face.
But when she picked up her phone and saw Shen Wuxiao's response—
The beautiful smile on her face gradually vanished.
It was replaced by a faint sense of loss.
Holding her phone, she stood before the table and looked over that single word, "Oh," again and again.
Words often represented a person's emotions.
That "Oh" was full of perfunctoriness, indifference, even a reluctance to speak.
Hexi's mood suddenly sank.
She clutched her phone and typed out a string of words, but just as she was about to send them, she tapped them away, deleting everything.
After thinking for a moment, she typed another message, only to delete that as well.
In the end, she replied, "Mm... What are you doing?"
After sending it, she put her phone back on the table, walked over to the wine cabinet, and took out a bottle of red wine.
She poured herself a glass.
Her gaze kept drifting toward her phone.
For quite a while, there was no reply.
So she went into the bathroom, intending to take a proper bath and get some sleep.
But just after entering the bathroom and taking off her clothes—
She sharply heard her phone chime outside again.
It was not that