Linda pondered for a bit, smiled, and slowly came back to her senses.
She walked towards Qiao Mianmian with her high heels making "click-clack" sounds.
"What a coincidence," Linda said, brushing her curls. Standing in front of Qiao Mianmian, she said gleefully, "We actually reached at the same time."
Qiao Mianmian followed suit. "Yes, indeed. Shall we head up together?"
"Sure."
Although Linda had a lot of questions, she controlled her urge to gossip and pretended to be ignorant even though she was curious.
…
At the cafe.
They ordered a cup of coffee each. As they did not like to beat around the bush, they went straight to discussing the contract.
Linda handed over the printed contract to Qiao Mianmian and said, "This is the contract. Please look through it and, if there are no additional questions, we can proceed to sign."
"Sure."
Qiao Mianmian started reading the contract page by page.