Silence filled the journey.
As they took a taxi to the hotel they had booked, Jiang He gazed out of the window, watching the hustle and bustle of the streets.
She didn't know what she was expecting, having already seen it several times online. Yet, when she finally set foot on this land and looked at the neon lights at the street corners, she still felt a tinge of disappointment.
Gusu... it really was gone.
The people and stories from a thousand years ago were all buried beneath this land.
"Feeling disappointed?"
After getting out of the car, Xu Qing tousled her hair.
"Not really," Jiang He shook her head and forced a smile, "I had already seen it on the internet."
"But when you actually come here, you still think of the past," he said.
Xu Qing understood her feelings well; she had lived here for over a decade a thousand years ago, and had only been in the modern world for just under two years. It was normal for her to feel this way.
