That afternoon, the two strolled through the campus of Lin Sen's university.
"Um... how about I head back first?" Tao Xiaoxiao said somewhat absentmindedly.
"Huh? You're leaving already?" Lin Sen froze.
Thinking back to how she had been when they first met, Tao Xiaoxiao hadn't been like this at all.
"Mm, I'm a little tired." Tao Xiaoxiao nodded softly and put a little more distance between herself and Lin Sen.
"Then... then I'll take you back." Lin Sen scratched his head. That was all he could say.
Outside a business hotel, Tao Xiaoxiao got out of the car.
"Xiaoxiao, I'll come pick you up tonight." Lin Sen leaned his head out of the car window.
"Okay." Tao Xiaoxiao nodded lightly, then hurried into the hotel.
She checked in and collected her room key.
The moment she entered the room, Tao Xiaoxiao lay down on the bed and didn't come back to her senses for a long while.
She took out her phone, opened Little Blue Book, and carefully scrolled through Xiao Yang's old photos one by one.
From fat to thin.
Then changing his outfits, changing his hairstyle...
"So, little by little, someone really can transform to this extent." Tao Xiaoxiao murmured.
She noticed that someone had once commented that he had already become someone she could never hope to reach.
Everyone had thought it was a joke at the time.
But looking at it now, wasn't that true? A guy this handsome was exactly the kind of person they could never hope to reach.
"Oh, right, the group chat..." Tao Xiaoxiao awkwardly opened the chat.
Because of her sudden disappearance, the group had long since exploded.
"Where are you?"
"You suddenly vanished off the face of the earth. Something's not right!"
Tao Xiaoxiao sent an embarrassed emoji to the