27 Chapter 27: Malice_1

The setting sun's afterglow always evokes a sense of desolation, and twilight is always so quiet.

Even in one of human's largest gathering places—the campus—there are only a few whispers, and this near-silent hum in the teaching building makes the surroundings seem even more silent.

Collapsed in the stairwell, I looked up at her beautiful figure under the sunset's afterglow. Time seemed to have stopped, much like the past three years…

Our eyes met, silent and staring.

One second, two seconds, three seconds…

Liu Qianqian suddenly turned and ran toward the other end of the corridor. At the moment she turned, tears once again surged out and fell in the wind—those were the remnants of her ravaged defiance.

"Hey!"

With tears falling in the wind, shining crystal clear in the afterglow, Fang Ren immediately scrambled up from the stairwell and hastened after Liu Qianqian.

He had clearly intended to leave just moments before...