Indoors, Su Chen followed Yu Haoran to the seats reserved for them. They sat with other affluent guests, whom Su Chen never met before.
Before the event started, he felt bored, so he took out his phone and messaged Su Xiang.
She messaged back, and they began to have a casual conversation that didn't involve any of their worries and anxieties.
It felt good to talk to her normally since Su Chen did not have that with her a while, not since he returned, and not since he was engaged to Yu Haoran.
A part of him agreed to the engagement to Yu Haoran because of Song Luli's marriage with Long Jie—a strategic power move that he wanted. But a larger part of him decided it was because he was conscious of his growing attraction to Su Xiang. A feeling that he couldn't act on.
