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The place where she parted ways with Ding Jiali was at a corner. Ding Jiali waved at Hesta and shouted goodbye, but Hesta did not look at him. Her gaze passed over the shrubs, and she spotted the girl behind the roadside trees in the distance at once.

The girl was still wearing a baseball cap today, staring at the two people saying goodbye at the corner. Hesta's sudden gaze caught her off guard. She immediately turned around and walked away as if nothing had happened.

Hesta withdrew her gaze as well.

When she reached the foot of Wenhui Building, she still took the stairs three at a time as before, until a voice called out to her. Hesta turned around and found it was the girl she had saved earlier.

The girl smiled. "Hello."

"Hello." Hesta stopped and looked around. "What are you doing here by yourself?"

"I haven't been sleeping well these past few days," the girl said. "Whenever I close my eyes, I remember that person falling from the building that day... I don't know why, but I wanted to come take a look."

The two of them looked toward where the deceased had fallen. The blood and brain matter had been completely cleaned away by that evening. Now, that stretch of steps was smooth and gleaming, without the slightest trace of death left behind.

"It really takes time to recover from something like this," Hesta said.

"At the police station that day, I wanted to come over and say hello, but I was worried it would be too presumptuous." The girl looked at the ground. "Afterward, I waited by the door for a while, but they kept you there for questioning. I thought it over and decided to leave first..."

"Did you have something you wanted