Xia Dabao followed Ye Ge out of the door and took one last deep look at Tian Xiaobei, who also stood up, her eyes similarly brimming with reluctance.
...
Ye Ge had ridden over on horseback.
He knew Xia Dabao must have hardly eaten anything, so he bought her two sesame seed cakes from the roadside and asked her to move to the back to sit.
Xia Dabao had no appetite for sesame seed cakes, thinking about the events of the past couple of days, it felt as if she had gone through a nightmare.
Memories appeared one by one before her: the young man she first met, cool and stubborn; the young man she cut fish grass with by the river; the young man she went with to buy lychees, and to the mountains to pick pig medicine grass; the young man who had said he would marry her someday...
