Night Fire Lingering

The next day.

Jiang Xing was half-asleep and half-awake when she suddenly realized something. When she opened her eyes, she saw Lou Qi sitting next to her, which startled her.

"what are you doing?"

She glanced at her phone; it was only eight in the morning. Anyone who didn't know better would think she'd slept until noon!

"Aren't we going hiking?" Lou Qi didn't really want to mention drawing lots or anything like that; it sounded superstitious and silly.

Jiang Xing then remembered what he had said before, and Lou Qi remembered it perfectly, just like a child who couldn't wait for a spring outing.

"No rush." ​​Jiang Xing slowly got up and went to the bathroom to wash up.

Lou Qi followed and stood guard at the bathroom door, saying, "I'm in a real hurry."

Although Jiang Xing didn't say what he was asking for when he went to the temple to draw lots, before saying that, he asked: "Lou Qi, what do you think our relationship is now?"

—Draw a fortune stick to answer their questions about the future.

Both of them are smart people, so there's no need to rush to explain.

"It's a workday today, aren't you going to work?" Jiang Xing had been given an extra day off by Gu Yanci.

"Take a vacation," Premier Lou said confidently.

“You’ve been on sick leave for a long time,” Jiang Xing reminded him.

"I worked overtime a few days ago, so I'm taking a day off today."

"..." This is the first time I've heard of a boss taking time off in lieu of leave.

The two hadn't even finished their breakfast when the driver arrived at their doorstep to wait.

Jiang Xing glanced at the man who had been specially arranged for her, finished the last sip of her soy milk, and asked curiously, "Aren't you afraid that the lottery results will be bad because you're so enthusiastic?"

"Miss Jiang has already graduated with a doctorate, why is she still superstitious?" Lou Qi took her bag and carried it for her.

"Isn't your choice to go together also a form of superstition?"

Lou Qi sighed and asked helplessly, "Do I have any other choice?"

Jiang Xing's WeChat vibrated. She opened her phone and saw a new message from a classmate: "[Junior, I heard Ying Kai has gone mad?]"

"Ying Kai... An has gone mad?" Jiang Xing asked Lou Qi in astonishment.

"I don't know." Lou Qi didn't care at all, he just told people to keep an eye on things.

Jiang Xing understood what Lou Qi meant. Ying Kaian might have really gone mad from the shock, or he might be pretending to be mad out of fear of Lou Qi's revenge.

For Kaian, perhaps true madness is a way to escape despair and fear.

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On a weekday, there weren't many people at the temple. A few young people had just drawn lots and were happily going to have them interpreted.

Jiang Xing lined up, and when it was his turn, he held the lottery tube in both hands and started shaking it.

"Clap!"

A bamboo skewer fell to the ground.

Jiang Xing picked it up and obtained the corresponding fortune slip based on the serial number of the bamboo slip.

Lou Qi was taller than her, and with a slight lowering of his gaze, he easily saw the first few words on the fortune slip:

Sign under.

"What I'm asking is, shall we get back together?" Jiang Xing clearly felt the air pressure around her drop sharply. She flipped her wrist to show him the fortune slip, a faint, helpless smile on her lips. "This is the answer."

"Is that so?" Lou Qi smiled, but his eyes were cold. "I'll draw one and see."

Without kneeling, he picked up the divination tube and shook it gently twice. "Plop!" A divination stick fell out.

He picked it up, glanced at it, and tossed it aside unsatisfiedly before shaking the divination tube again.

"Clap!"

Another slip fell out.

He glanced at it, then tossed it aside.

His actions were so arrogant that they attracted the attention of the surrounding worshippers.

The third one landed, and Lou Qi was still dissatisfied.

He lost his patience, took one of the divination sticks directly from the container, glanced at it, and finally handed it to the fortune teller.

The fortune teller's expression was indescribable as he said, "Congratulations, this is an extremely auspicious fortune."