"Senior! Senior!"
As Fang Ran watched the elegant figure in the black-and-white maid dress leave with a soft laugh, still lost in thought over Qian Mian and Clotilde's invitations, he suddenly heard someone calling out in the London night of the Simulation Scenario.
Then he saw Tang Bing, who had arrived with Gou Yu, hurrying toward him.
"Hey, Gour—"
"Senior! You heartless bastard!"
Seeing her appear, Fang Ran snapped out of it and was just about to crack a joke in greeting when Tang Bing's blunt accusation caught him off guard. Then he heard her shout at him in worried anger:
"If you were fine, you could've at least said something on the phone! You disappeared for a whole day and night without even sending a message!"
Tang Bing looked at him as her eyes slowly reddened, her voice dropping into a choked sob.
"I thought Senior, you..."
The girl before him did not finish. She lowered her head and rubbed her eyes with both hands. Fang Ran froze, suddenly at a complete loss.
A girl who was neither family nor someone he had known for very long had worried so much about his safety that she was crying.
It was the first time he had ever experienced such a feeling, something he had never felt before spreading through his heart.
Flustered and a little embarrassed, he had no idea what to say.
Looking at Tang Bing, Fang Ran finally just raised a hand and rubbed her head, letting out an apologetic, sheepish sigh with a smile.
"Um... sorry. I made you worry."
As an ordinary person dragged into this incident, the only person she could trust and rely on was her senior from the same university. Seeing Fang Ran standing there safe and sound—
Amid the drifting, unsettled feeling