Because of their brief encounter the day before, he had found the courage to approach her.
When he saw the girl smile at him and say, "Oh, it's you," all his worries vanished.
"H-hello. My name is Lu Huan."
He did something he had always wanted to do but had never had the courage to.
He wanted to get to know the girl.
"Lu Huan."
Hearing the girl say his name filled him with joy.
"My name is Hu Yingying."
"Yingying, as in the character for flower."
"Hu... Yingying."
He grinned foolishly. It was a lovely name.
And so, they got to know each other naturally.
But the only time they spent together was on the subway and during the walk to the station entrance.
He had once tried to ask for her contact information, but she told him she didn't have a phone.
He was stunned. Though he said it was all right, he thought she simply didn't want to give him her contact information.
After all, in this day and age, a young person without a phone?!
It didn't seem possible.
What's more, the person claiming not to have a phone was a girl who liked wearing Lolita-style clothes and showed no signs of being socially withdrawn.
No matter how he looked at it, saying she didn't have a phone seemed like a polite way to turn him down.
After all, no matter how much someone disliked electronic devices, in today's society, not having a phone was practically enough to make it impossible to get by.
He never asked her for her contact information again.
And in all the time they spent together afterward, he never once saw her use a phone.
That made him question his original judgment.
Could it be that the girl