Chapter 68 - 67 Longing like the Night
You are like the night, possessing silence and star clusters. — Neruda
After Jiang An’s flight arrived in City Z, she accompanied her mentor to a meeting at the venue. She was busy until 8 p.m. before returning to the hotel. She had just turned on her cell phone and realized that there were many red dots in her WeChat indicating messages mainly from friends and classmates wishing her a safe journey. Jiang An briefly replied before grabbing her pajamas to take a shower. The utterly exhausted girl lay in bed and immediately lost all her strength, setting her alarm for eight in the morning before sinking into a deep sleep.
The night was waning, and Dr. Gao, after a day’s work, dragged his weary body back to his empty home. As usual, he exercised in the gym for half an hour before taking a shower. Afterwards, he went into his study. The man sorted out the materials for a recent medical project he was researching. He kept busy until ten o’clock. Then, he took out his phone and saw Jiang An had uniformly replied in her moments that she had arrived safely. Dr. Gao sighed, opened Jiang An’s chat, his eyes resting on her profile picture. After hesitating for a while, he typed a few words and sent them.
Gao Chuan: Are you asleep?
After hitting send and watching it for a few seconds, he retracted the message, pondered for a few seconds, and edited a new one.
Gao Chuan: Are you asleep?
Then he gently tapped the send button, a profound face cold like ice.
The black night, like a vast net woven across the sky, with a few faint cold stars embellishing the indigo horizon, time elapsed slowly. The person lying in the bed was sleeping sweetly when her cell phone screen on the pillow lit up twice, a bright light gently illuminating the girl’s beautiful eyebrows.
The next day was the first day of the summit. Jiang An spent the morning listening to the organizer’s speech at the venue with her mentor. After lunch, her mentor took her to meet several esteemed figures in the medical field. The girl followed her mentor in high heels all day and returned to the hotel utterly exhausted in the evening, falling straight into bed. She took out her cell phone only to discover the message Gao Chuan had sent the night before, her heart racing, she quickly replied: "I went to sleep early last night, just saw your message now."