Lan Wu was taken aback, stepped forward, and tentatively took her hand. Her palm felt colder than usual. She glanced at Ji Lingyue with concern, intending to pull her back, but the girl remained rooted to the spot, her gaze fixed on the tightly shut door. Thud… Thud… Thud… The relentless pounding reverberated with a dull thud. Soon, the sounds…
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Soon, night fell again. Lan Wu finished her shower and slipped into the clean nightgown Ji Lingyue had handed her. She padded out of the bathroom in her slippers, the soft pitter-patter of her steps echoing in the quiet apartment. After the rain stopped, the clouds had completely dispersed, and silvery moonlight streamed into the living room. She cautiously leaned…
“Over here,” Ji Lingyue called, shielding herself from the pouring rain with her bag as she hurried under a shelter. It was two in the afternoon, but the sky was still shrouded in dark clouds, not a single ray of light breaking through. The occasional rumble of thunder echoed in the distance. The streets were flooded with filthy water, reeking…
“We’re out of gas again.” “What do we do now?” Lan Wu glanced ahead at the abandoned cars scattered across the wide overpass, then back at the silent, undulating town standing in the pitch-black night. “There’s no place to rest here either.” Ji Lingyue fanned herself with her hand. “We’re only a few hours away from Huaguang City. My home…
It seemed the car was truly beyond repair. Ji Lingyue sighed regretfully, hopping out of the vehicle with a limp. The sun-scorched ground was covered in shapeless ashes, which scattered with the breeze. Not far away, the slender vampire stood bored under the canopy of a building, her voluminous curls cascading down her back. Perhaps because the sun was too…