"Hey, Xiaoliang, finished up?" The clacking of keyboards mingled with coworkers' conversations in the background.
"Just wrapped up. What about you? Can you leave yet?"
"Yeah, I'm going over tomorrow's script one more time. I'll be done in a minute."
"I'll come pick you up."
The other end went quiet for a moment.
"Pick me up? Forget it, don't go to all that trouble. You'd have to go a stop out of your way. Just head straight home. We can meet there. Isn't that the same?"
"Or just wait for me at the bus stop."
Warmth filled Wang Xiaoliang's heart, and his lips spread into a grin before he knew it.
"I'm coming to inspect my family member's workplace. This is a notification. Since when does the person being inspected get to make suggestions?"
"All right, all right, head of the household. Your family member respectfully awaits your grand arrival."
The drive from University Town to the TV Station wasn't short. Especially for a novice driver, city traffic at the tail end of the evening rush posed quite a challenge.
The traffic on the road merged into a river of red light.
Wang Xiaoliang gripped the steering wheel tightly with both hands, staring straight ahead without blinking.
He drove so cautiously that a taxi driver beside him impatiently honked, stepped on the gas, and shot past him with a whoosh.
Wang Xiaoliang ignored him and maintained his crawling pace.
Safety first. Dad said so.
The navigation system sounded. "Entering the elevated expressway ahead."
It was his first time driving onto an elevated expressway by himself.
Traffic merged into the entrance, and the cars around him suddenly sped up. The roar of engines instantly surrounded him. Cars hurtled past one after another, their slipstreams making his Wuling sway.
His heart raced,