Setting Out for the Hui River

168 cm was a perfect height. Bai Yuxia wore jeans, a short black down jacket, and snow boots. She was slim and tall.

A girl with a background in dance possessed a gentle elegance even when she was merely standing still.

Zhang Ruyun, who had been gossiping about Jiang Ning behind his back, visibly widened his eyes the moment he saw Bai Yuxia.

At first glance, her face was not as breathtaking as Xue Chuchu's, but she gave off the calmness of a lake—soft, yet impossible to overlook. Every gesture carried an unhurried poise.

Zhang Ruyun did not know that this was a quality unique to girls raised in well-off, intellectual families with loving parents.

Her well-rounded character could even make boys who had lacked love since childhood, who liked to hide in the shadows and watch others, feel jealousy, envy, and even twisted emotions after seeing her.

Bai Yuxia had merely stated her height, yet Zhang Ruyun found himself unable to refute her. The superiority he had felt toward Jiang Ning seemed to have been crushed beneath this girl's feet in an instant.

Yes, it was strange. Men clearly possessed greater physical strength and could easily destroy a woman in a short time, yet when they saw a beautiful woman, they still could not help feeling a gloomy sense of inferiority.

His mood was so bleak that even Zhang Ruyun's complexion darkened.

After catching his neighbor's reaction, Jiang Ning merely smiled and said, "Let's go. Siyu and the others should already be here."

Bai Yuxia smiled lightly, paying no mind to what had just happened, and followed Jiang Ning into the main room.

Outside the single-story house, by the bench.

Recalling the girl he had just seen, Zhang Ruyun felt his throat go dry. He could not help taking