The next flight to Capital City would not depart until midnight. As compensation, the police would cover the cost of the round-trip tickets.
While they waited for the plane, Ye Xunzhi fell asleep in the departure lounge right on schedule, while Ye Lan browsed Weibo.
The moment he opened it, he saw a familiar name at the top of the trending headlines: his little sister's.
Some resourceful Chaoyang resident had broken through the police's layers of cordons and filmed the entire incident.
Below it, the netizens were engaged in a heated discussion.
[Hahahahaha, somehow, when this happens to Darling Ye, it feels weirdly reasonable.]
[Police: your alarm went off, and my dream of a first-class merit citation woke up. (smile)(smile)]
[Back in the day, I looked so dashing in my posture corrector, only for the woman at security to tell me to stand aside! Then she told another security officer, "This person's wearing a bulletproof vest."]
[You think that's bad? Once, when I went back to my hometown, I casually told my mom, "This flour's pretty good." Without my knowledge, she stuffed a bag of it into my suitcase. Do you have any idea how terrified I was when a bunch of cops surrounded me at security and opened my luggage? (sweat)(grin)]
["Exquisitely crafted" counts as a compliment, at least.]
[...]
By the time the plane landed at Capital City Airport, it was already two in the morning. Ye Xunzhi coasted along sitting on a suitcase the whole way. Even when she occasionally walked a few steps, she was half asleep, barely knowing what year it was.
When she finally came fully awake, it was already noon the following day.
"Huh? Where am I?"
With a tuft of hair sticking up, Ye Xunzhi opened the door in bewilderment, her memories