Lu Huan instinctively followed the direction Master Xiao had indicated with a slight lift of his chin.
The next second, his eyes flew wide. "Hu Yingying?!"
The girl was leaning in a corner of the subway car.
She was still dressed in a rather eye-catching Lolita-style dress.
He didn't understand how he could have failed to see her right away before.
Could it be...
The frown that had eased when he saw the girl creased his brow again.
The girl seemed not to notice the boy's troubled expression.
Her eyes curved as she spoke in a cute, teasing tone, "You have four eyes, and you still can't see me?"
Lu Huan tamped down his unease. Wasn't this exactly why he'd come today?
He adjusted the black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, unfazed by the girl's teasing, and smiled slightly.
"Hu Yingying."
"Lu Huan."
They smiled at each other.
Although his earlier suspicion had cast a shadow between Lu Huan's brows, the unspoken understanding he shared with the girl made bubbles of joy rise uncontrollably in his heart.
He couldn't help grinning foolishly for a while before he finally remembered why they were there.
He hadn't come alone today.
"Hu Yingying—"
"Just call me Yingying. Isn't saying all three characters tiring?"
The girl smiled sweetly.
"Oh, right."
The boy nodded blankly, his cheeks growing warm. As if to hide his discomfort, he hurriedly spoke up. "Yingying, this is my classmate, Xiao Xiao."
"Master Xiao, this is the girl I told you about, Hu Yingying."
"Yingying, I—"
"We'll talk after we get off the subway,"
Xiao Xiao interrupted Lu Huan.
Although it was a weekend morning, the subway was still crowded. That wouldn't be very convenient for the conversation they needed to have.
"Oh, right."
Lu Huan caught