Amid the monotonous, rolling yellow sands, a stunning splash of color appeared—a huge Rose Lake!
It was so beautiful that Song He even wondered if he was hallucinating. The lake wasn't particularly large, covering roughly the area of six Basketball Courts, but its shape was remarkably close to a heart. The outermost layer was snow white, while farther in, the water turned pink. The closer it got to the center, the redder it became. The vast expanse at the very middle was completely the color of rose petals, as rich as an artificial fuel pond.
The desert stretched endlessly beneath the vast sky, with a glittering, heart-shaped Rose Lake embedded in the middle. The sudden, breathtaking beauty left them both stunned for a moment, after which they hugged each other tightly.
"Damn, this suddenly really feels like a honeymoon." Xiang Xiaotong was thrilled. She pulled her phone from her pocket. "Let's take a picture together!"
With Rose Lake as their backdrop, the couple took dozens of photos together in different poses and from different angles.
"It looks like it was edited, but it's actually real." Xiang Xiaotong happily examined the photos on her phone. "Is this lake completely natural?"
"The color should be completely natural. The Badain Jaran Desert has quite a few lakes like this. They're salt lakes, and only certain types of algae can adapt to the high-salt environment. At most, there are also some Brine Shrimp that feed on algae. The two together create the lake's colors." Song He pondered. "But this heart shape... Whether there are traces of human intervention is hard to say. Someone could've come down by helicopter and spent two hours with a shovel shaping it."
"Let's go down and take a look!" Xiang Xiaotong said excitedly.
The couple held hands and slowly