At the entrance to Happiness Garden residential area, a white electric scooter was slowly making its way in through the fine rain.
Large raindrops came hammering down without pause, quickly soaking the rider.
After work, Su Yue returned to the residential area. Her long, black, silky hair had been dampened by the rain, though thankfully not too badly.
Once she had parked, Su Yue nimbly pushed the electric scooter into the parking shed.
Then, carrying her bag, she hurried toward the stairwell entrance.
Luckily, she had made it back before the rain intensified.
If she had been even a moment later, it probably would not have been just a little rain dampening her hair—most of her clothes would have been drenched.
Remembering that she had failed to hang her clothes on the balcony before leaving that morning, Su Yue secretly congratulated herself on that wise decision.
She stood in the stairwell, breathing slightly heavily. Raising her slender arms, she carefully smoothed her rain-disheveled hair with her delicate, scallion-like fingers, her gaze fixed on the curtain of rain outside as it grew heavier and heavier.
A moment later, Su Yue took the elevator home.
The moment she opened the door, she found the room pitch-black. The gloomy sky made the quiet space seem even darker.
Su Yue casually pressed the light switch on the wall, and in an instant, the lights drove away the darkness.
She walked to the shoe cabinet and took out her indoor slippers. Bending down to untie her shoelaces, she changed into the slippers, then hurried into the living room.
Su Yue placed her bag on the sofa, then took off her rain-dampened coat and hung it on the rack to dry.
Just then, her phone rang abruptly.
After hanging up her coat, Su Yue went over