Huo Mian didn't remember how she got home. She sat alone in the darkness for a long time, and the event that had just taken place was so unreal that it felt like a dream to her. The lingering pain on her cheek was the mark that Ning Zhiyuan's hand had just left behind.
They had known each other since college, and Ning Zhiyuan courted her for a very long time. It was only after careful consideration that she began dating him. He wasn't extremely outstanding, but he really had been good to Huo Mian. She thought that she would live the rest of her life like this, ordinarily.
She never expected something like this to happen at such a critical time. Qin Chu's return seemed to have shaken everything into disarray.
After a while, she regained enough of her senses to check her cell phone. She had more than a dozen missed calls, all from Zhu Lingling.
There were also three unread messages on WeChat...
