The winding mountain road seems to have no end.
There were only two of them on the entire road.
After walking for a few minutes, Chi Yan suddenly remembered something and turned back to look at Gu Jianian. He raised the corner of his mouth and said teasingly, "You're going out with me like this, aren't you afraid that I'll kidnap you and sell you off?"
Gu Jianian sniffed and said, "Then you'll lose money. I've been annoying since I was a child, so I don't think I can earn enough to pay for the trip."
Chi Yan raised his eyebrows and stared at her, wondering if she was joking or serious.
After a moment, he continued, "It will take about an hour to walk. You've been running for so long and crying all night. Can you still walk? Don't you want me to carry you?"
He looked at her seriously for a moment and said, "You don't look heavy."
Gu Jianian burst out laughing. She herself didn't expect that she could actually laugh.
I just felt that my face was a little stiff from crying, and it was very difficult to smile.
She waved her hands and muttered unhappily, "Who asked you to carry it?"
"Besides, I just ate a big piece of cake and drank some coffee, so I'm energetic enough to run two 800-meter races."
As she was speaking, she suddenly stopped talking and looked at him, then she realized something belatedly.
Chi Yan probably didn't have time to have dinner, let alone her birthday cake.
Gu Jianian suddenly felt a little guilty.
He had clearly come to attend her birthday party on behalf of He Ji, but he had gotten himself into such a big trouble for no reason. Not only had he listened to her complaining all night, but now he had to carry her across mountains and rivers on an empty stomach.
Gu Jianian said with a guilty conscience: "You didn't have dinner, are you hungry? Are you sleepy?"
"You still have some conscience," Chi Yan said slowly without turning around, "I'm a little hungry, but I don't feel sleepy. Do you think I'm someone who goes to bed early?"
Gu Jianian thought for a while and shook his head: "It's true that it doesn't look like that. Vampires usually move around at night."
Hearing this, Chi Yan looked back at her and said with a smile, "You're still a chatterbox. It seems like you really don't need me to carry you on your back."
They walked very fast.
An hour later, the town's bus station was in sight.
Gu Jianian followed Chi Yan into the empty waiting hall. Looking at the few scattered passengers, he felt a very strange feeling in his heart.
More than a month ago, she stood alone in the crowded high-speed railway station in Beilin. Although she was surrounded by a bustling crowd, she felt lonely and could not see the way forward.
Now, in this sparsely populated small town bus station, there is no one around, and there is no one queuing at the ticket gate.
She is not alone.
Gu Jianian looked at himself through the glass window of the bus station.
The wound on her face was still a little swollen, her hair was messed up by the night wind, and the corners of her skirt were torn by the branches.
She was in a terrible state, but her heart gradually calmed down, on a night that she thought she might not be able to survive.
Chi Yan went to buy two night bus tickets to Zhushan, and bought some bread and water on his way back.
He handed her the bread.
Gu Jianian took it and put it aside: "I'm not hungry yet, I'll save it for later in the car. You eat first."
Chi Yan nodded, sat down beside her, munched on the bread neatly, and occasionally sipped water.
He finished the bread in a few bites.