Time slipped away, and the distant sky, clear as a blue sea,
burned into the tranquil darkness of night amid the brilliant, warm sunset, making the coolness in the air all the more distinct.
It was already mid-November. In Beijing, the sun probably set before six o'clock.
The daylight faded, yet the sky had not fully darkened—the ambiguous hour of dusk.
After a day of fun, at the east exit of the Commercial Kingdom, the slender, exquisite girl had her arm around the tall, sexy figure beside her as they laughed their way onto the pedestrian street plaza.
Fang Ran followed behind, carrying shopping bags filled with everything from clothes and dresses to all kinds of other items in one hand.
Thinking of how he had repeatedly waited outside fitting rooms that afternoon for them to change and pull back the curtains, even though he trusted that those Big fashion stores would never allow any privacy leaks,
it still felt far too unguarded to change clothes so often in public.
Looking at the two figures ahead of him—especially the girl who was rather well-known—Fang Ran thought helplessly.
But when he saw Shui Lianxin and Xia Yao's beautiful smiling faces beneath the newly lit streetlights, he sighed in surrender.
Fine. As long as they were happy.
"Junior, isn't that heavy? Want me to help?"
Her black-stockinged heels paused slightly. Xia Yao, draped in knitwear, turned to look at Fang Ran behind her and asked with concern.
"Ah, it's fine, Senior. Really."
"By the way, Fang Ran, is this your first time going shopping with girls?"
As Fang Ran raised the shopping bags one-handed while answering, Shui Lianxin's light footsteps carried her around to his other side. She asked with a lively, radiant smile.
"Uh..."
Caught off guard by her question, Fang