"It’s raining outside..." Li Chaoxi looked at the unrelenting downpour, then turned to see Gu Ziyou already starting to unbuckle her seatbelt, "I’ll walk you upstairs."

"I’m not a child anymore. Li Chaoxi, I’m fine. You got out, and the rain’s not going to stop. It’s just a few steps, I can run over. You should go back."

As she spoke, she had already left the car door, running a few steps to the building below.

The sound of rain roared in her ears, and the sky grew even darker.

Standing below the building, she waved at Li Chaoxi in the car, "You should hurry back, I don’t want journalists to find my home too."

Li Chaoxi didn’t get out of the car, the windshield wipers kept moving, Gu Ziyou’s waving figure blurred for a moment, then became clear again.

"Goodbye, I’ll treat you to dinner when I’m back in Manchester!"

He said nothing, slowly rolling up the window.

An inexplicable feeling lingered in his heart, she probably wouldn’t return to Manchester.

He sighed deeply inside, let out a bitter smile, nodded towards her, and the car turned around, driving into the rain.

That guy called Shen Lingfeng, one thing he didn’t want to admit was that he did care about Gu Ziyou.

Listening to what Xue Mengmeng said, he almost couldn’t believe anyone would treat her so unfairly.

Yet when he saw him yesterday, he couldn’t say why, but knew his previous assumptions might have been wrong.

However, he wasn’t sure, and selfishly thought in his heart, maybe Youyou leaving him was a good thing...

But, he had never seen Youyou look at anyone like that.

Had never seen that look directed at anyone, including himself.

Maybe in her heart, he was always just a brother-like figure.

He had a place in her life, but unfortunately that place was never the one he wished for.

Li Chaoxi was driving when suddenly his assistant called.

"Chaoxi, are you really not taking the role you turned down last time? The director called again, even though it was rejected, he still hopes you’ll reconsider. I know you’re always busy, haven’t rested much in the last few years, wanted some time off now. But this really is an opportunity, possibly a chance to break into Hollywood, you know how much..."

"Alright." Li Chaoxi seemed to let out a sigh, "I’ll take it, I’ll sign with them after I finish shooting this ad. I suppose there’s not much need for rest recently, being alone is quite boring, might as well work."

Gu Ziyou watched the torrential rain outside the building, and after Li Chaoxi’s Land Rover drove away, she saw no other cars.

The whole world seemed shrouded in a layer of gray mist.

In this hazy scene, the sky and earth lost all color.

She didn’t go upstairs, instead sitting down on the steps at the entrance.

Not knowing what she was waiting for, perhaps just wanting some peace.

"Miss Gu?" The security guard saw her sitting at the entrance, quite surprised, "Why are you here? You’ve caught a little rain, you should go back."

"I’m fine, I’ll just sit here for a while."

"Did you forget your keys? Miss Gu, if you don’t have your keys, why don’t you sit in my office inside?" The security guard said worriedly, "You’re all wet, it’s not good to sit here. See how strong the wind is, the rain is coming in. Sitting here will only make you wetter."

"I’m not going in, thank you. Just let me sit here and have some quiet."

The security guard couldn’t persuade her, so he went back inside.

He thought of Miss Gu’s face, pale with raindrops, and felt somewhat uneasy. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

He immediately searched through the records, found Shen’s phone number.

"Mr. Shen, this is Xiaolin, I’m the security guard at your building, do you remember me?"