Two days later, on a perfectly ordinary afternoon.
Because Sunset Middle School's teaching building was being used as an examination venue for a public test that afternoon, Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang were granted the rare luxury of a half-day off, even though it was a weekday.
Ordinarily, they would probably have spent such a half-day idling away in the girls' uneventful daily lives. But this day was different. Lin Xiaolu had other plans.
"Well then, I'm heading out. See you."
As Hong Siyu's voice rang out from the entryway, the girls all turned toward the door of the Secret Base and watched her leave. Only after a dull bang came from the entrance did they look at one another.
"Move."
With a solemn expression, Lin Xiaolu swept a hand toward the door. "Follow her."
"Are you really doing this?"
Feeling a bad premonition stir in her heart, Xia Liang was a million times unwilling to go along with such an unreliable decision. "Didn't following your dad fail last time? How about we just forget it this time?"
Xia Liang was a girl accustomed to keeping her thoughts to herself. The reason she revealed her true feelings this time, with her resistance written plainly on her face, was because she genuinely believed there was nothing practical about this plan.
The reason for her pessimistic attitude, aside from thinking the plan was unreliable, was mainly this: she was someone who truly knew what was going on.
She knew Larkspur's true identity and could guess the relationship between Larkspur and Hong Siyu.
Over the past few months of spending time with Hong Siyu, even Lin Xiaolu could see what feelings she harbored. Naturally, Xia Liang was no exception.
"Hong Siyu likes Lin Yun" had already become an unspoken fact in the girls'