He had always known the rabbit was a schemer, but he hadn't expected Ye Ruan to set traps for him step by step even when it came to love.
"But..." Ye Ruan paused.
He hadn't expected Gu Cheng to be the one who had played those beautiful piano pieces all those years ago.
Or to have left that little plate of sliced melon on the windowsill the day before he left.
He hadn't tasted it, but he knew it would have been sweet.
"But what?" Gu Cheng had no idea that he and Ye Ruan had known each other as children.
As far as he remembered, their first meeting had been one winter a few years ago, when he saw the little rabbit preparing to leave on a mission.
Gu Cheng asked, "Is there something else you haven't told me?"
Before Ye Ruan could answer, a commotion suddenly broke out nearby, followed by a gunshot.
Ye Ruan exchanged a glance with him and ran toward the sound.
There was a public restroom by the rear wall of the residential compound. Untended weeds grew all around it, and a crowd had gathered in a circle in the clearing, craning their necks to see what was happening inside.
When the two arrived, they heard a man screaming hysterically, a gun still clutched in his hand.
Ye Ruan and Gu Cheng squeezed through the crowd and saw Jiang Qing standing to one side, saying something to a man holding a knife.
Xia Yue turned, saw them coming, and said quietly:
"Someone went crazy. He tried to steal another person's ration coupons, and when that person refused to hand them over, they started fighting."
Lu Jiayi pulled her farther away.
"Stand back a little. It isn't safe."
Ye Ruan looked up at the tall