00:40
Click.
Lin Xian pressed down on the mahogany double doors' handle, pushed open the door, walked into the courtyard, slipped on the overcoat draped over his arm, and then walked down the steps.
Ji Lin leisurely followed behind Lin Xian, escorting him to the villa's courtyard entrance.
In front, the wide, deserted, and dimly lit internal road stretched out.
All the surrounding villa lights had dimmed...
This place, with few residents to begin with and more commonly used as a vacation spot, had practically no lights on now, apart from Ji Lin's courtyard.
Clouds scudded across the sky.
The frost on the ground swept away like a receding tide.
The moon was once again obscured by the clouds, shrouding the ground in darkness anew.
"Lin Xian."
Just as Lin Xian walked out of the villa's courtyard gate, Ji Lin called out to him from behind.
He turned around.
There Ji Lin stood, just inches away behind him.
Very close.
