At first, Li Mengmeng had only arranged to have a cup of coffee with her best friend.
Her best friend was running late, so she sat in the café downstairs in the shopping mall, waiting around bored out of her mind.
At only eighteen this year, she had already graduated from No. 3 Middle School in Qinggang Satellite City No. 2.
She was at the age when her collagen was at its richest, and her beauty could light up an entire street.
Today, she wore her simple, straight black hair long. Her clothes were just as simple: a short-sleeved T-shirt printed with a blue cartoon design and a pair of denim shorts only thirty centimeters long. At 168 centimeters tall, her two long, straight legs were especially eye-catching.
She was beautiful, and she knew it.
Whether she was walking down the street or sitting in a café, far too many people's gazes were always telling her so.
In the prime of her youth, she was also quite willing to enjoy such attention.
She drank her coffee while playing on her phone, and half the cup soon disappeared.
Her best friend still had not arrived, but a man outside the glass window caught Li Mengmeng's attention.
The man was sitting beneath the sun umbrella outside the café. He wore a light-gray trench coat over a suit. He was tall and handsome, a rare sight of a good-looking man. What drew Li Mengmeng's attention, however, was the man's gaze.
From the moment he sat down outside the café, he had been staring at Li Mengmeng without blinking.
That gaze was frank and bold, without the slightest attempt at concealment.
It made Li Mengmeng somewhat uncomfortable. If the man had come over to strike up a conversation at first, she might have exchanged