After Su Ning and Li Youqing went to bed, Lin Miao cautiously went out the balcony and dialed a familiar string of numbers. The summer night in A City was still rather chilly but Lin Miao barely felt the cold since she was immersed in the spectacular night view of the city. It took several seconds for her call to connect and on the other line spoke a calm deep voice.
"Lin Miao," he gave a perfunctory greeting.
"Gu YuChen, it's been a while," Lin Miao greeted back
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To be quite honest, Lin Miao was surprised when Gu YuChen had first approached her. The latter had a stoic look on his face the entire duration of their conversation that it took a minute or two for Lin Miao to process that he'd been asking for a favor. 'Is this how people request a favor nowadays? He looks like he is reading funeral rights,' Lin Miao thought back then.
