Chapter 103: You must remember me
Chen Lingshan crossed the road and ran to the corner before she could just barely make out the figure on the bicycle.
She had already dashed out, and the elastic holding her hair slipped off. Her black hair fell loose, fluttering in the night air. She could no longer spare any thought for that. Her formal dress billowed as she ran hard, and she gathered it in one hand, holding it down to keep it from flying up and exposing her.
Her purplish-red shoes had heels, and one slipped off after barely a few steps. She picked it up and simply carried both shoes in her hand. Her pale bare feet raced along the street, her long hair streaming behind her. The pedestrians she passed caught only a faint fragrance, and every one of them was astonished by the girl's odd behavior.
Around her were commercial buildings, streetlights, and the rough surfaces of old streets. Running over them scraped her perfect, delicate bare feet, drawing traces of blood over the fine red vessels beneath her skin.
She knew the roads well. The paths between the residential buildings offered a much quicker route than the main road.
She calculated rapidly in her mind. Past these two buildings, she could reach the sidewalk outside, and then the Overpass. If she was fast enough, accounting for the time, she could still intercept him.
Running out from between the two buildings, Chen Lingshan spotted that familiar figure ahead. Delighted, she hurried out, crossed several flower beds, and climbed the spiral stairs of the Overpass. She had always been average in the girls' eight-hundred-meter run at school, though her endurance was fairly steady. Her dash here had covered far more than eight hundred meters, but only when she stepped