Why go there?
It was such a simple question, yet it seemed to have hit her hard.
She really wasn't a regular. Even going out for a drink had a special reason behind it.
Looking at Tina, who had been struck speechless, Fu Qian thought to himself, but didn't press her.
The mood was just right. Let's see what kind of surprise she could offer him.
Even the surroundings were especially suited to contemplating life.
"Yesterday, I suddenly... didn't want to be alone."
Thankfully, his patience was quickly rewarded. As Tina recalled what had happened, her gaze grew a little unfocused.
"Especially at night?"
Taken on its own, this exchange could almost be described as flirtatious. But Fu Qian knew very well that her troubles had nothing to do with romance.
"Yeah. In this place, I couldn't think of anywhere else that would still have more people... And when they started leaving one by one, I felt awful."
Truly, it wasn't the drink that made her drunk. Tina soon honestly explained why she'd chosen to go to the bar: it wasn't for the alcohol, but for the company of the living.
"What do you mean, awful?"
The reason she'd woken up at his place that morning made sense now, but one key motivating factor was still missing.
"Darkness... Any place the light couldn't reach made me feel... terrified."
She seemed to be reliving it so vividly that Tina's breathing had begun to tremble. But after taking a deep breath, she finally managed to get it off her chest.
"What do you mean, terrified? Was something hiding in there, or was the darkness itself moving, ready to crawl over and devour you?"
Fu Qian showed no mercy, pressing her for every detail.
"Neither... It wasn't something hiding in the dark. The