Chapter 290: Turn Away and Leave
That was a lean silhouette sitting at the bar stool by the floor-to-ceiling window, facing in the direction of the window, the silence around him permeating with solitude.
He was wearing a plain, cotton-linen round-necked shirt and black cropped trousers that wrapped around his slender legs, revealing sharply defined ankles. Sitting on the high stool, his long legs seemed to have nowhere to go but to curl up under the table on the footrest.
Su Lu almost froze the instant she saw that silhouette. Alarms went off in her mind, yet at the same time, she felt a deep sense of sorrow, it was truly sorrowful.
Su Lu couldn’t help thinking, "All I did was glance at him once in front of the detention center, just one look, and now I can recognize his silhouette with just one glance..."
Perhaps, even if she hadn’t seen him at the detention center, she might still have recognized him.
Some people are like poison, irresistible, with even forgetting seeming luxurious.
Next to him sat a slender woman, appearing fragile and delicate. Her long hair was casually tied back, wearing a thin dress that outlined her spine distinctly, revealing her extraordinarily slender figure.
The woman seemed tall but not hunched, her long, fair neck as graceful as a swan’s. From this angle, only a slight contour of her side face was visible, her features indistinct.
But beauty is said to lie in the bones rather than the skin, so even without seeing her face directly, even just from this glimpse of her profile and her physique, it wasn’t hard to guess she was a beautiful woman.
"Zhao Qianqian, what’s wrong?" Zhao Xiaole saw Su Lu freeze upon entering and couldn’t help but gently tug on her sleeve, looking up at her with some confusion.
Zhao Xiaole’s way of addressing her was always a bit off—probably a family custom he picked up from his grandma, after all, Zhao Ying also oscillantly calls Manager Shen, Young Master Shen, Shen Jingbing...