She continued to lie awake as time slowly passed. When she saw the time on the screen change to 5:00 a.m. Time went by slowly until finally Xu Wennuan saw the time on her phone screen change to 5:00 a.m. Zero hadn't been online all night, and she had never received her 3:00 a.m. joke from him. She held onto her phone until the sky turned bright outside the window, at which point she huddled in bed and closed her eyes.
Wait… I was supposed to meet Lu Bancheng under the bridge last night before everything fell apart... I can use this excuse to call him...
Xu Wennuan immediately grabbed her phone and called him. After the call went through, she heard the alert that indicated the cell phone had been turned off.
Turned off? Could he already be on a plane bound for America? So, he's already left…
