Chi Yue sighed with a smile.
"I never thought that the task we couldn't manage even with all our effort could be solved with just a word from someone else."
"It's a society built on relationships," Qiao Dongyang said with a mocking smile, looking at her. "Now do you understand why that night I willingly gave up the money?"
"I understand," Chi Yue nodded. "It's because that money was unattainable from the start, right?"
"...You're really clever!" Qiao Dongyang knew she was teasing him. He reached out to tap her nose and then hugged her, slowly looking towards a ginkgo tree on the shore in the cool lakeside breeze, "Things will get better."
"I believe you, we'll make it through," Chi Yue said, holding Qiao Dongyang's hand.
The two interlocked their fingers, hugging each other tightly under the grey, murky city night sky.
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