The nurse next to her had the sa actions and the sa expression, shaking her head and quite puzzled, "As long as it’s a sunny day, the sunset is the sa every evening. I don’t know what she’s been looking at for so long?"
The two nurses walked into the inpatient departnt, and Nan Wan looked up.
The floors of the inpatient departnt were very high, and though her eyesight wasn’t bad, she could only see a silhouette against the light.
There was wind up high, and the person’s long hair flew chaotically in the air, seemingly unbothered. She just sat on the rooftop with her knees hugged, looking towards the sunset.
As if she might jump down at any mont, or perhaps she was just simply watching the scenery.
The vibration of the phone pulled Nan Wan’s gaze back. Answering it, she heard a familiar man’s deep voice in her ear, "Mrs. Mu, you went to find a new lover so quickly?"
Nan Wan no longer looked at the person on the rooftop and stepped towards the hospital exit, "You’re actually thinking of like this."
It’s not even six o’clock. Did he get off work already?
Mu Jin Huan ca ho and didn’t see anyone. He sat in the living room on the sofa, his suit pants wrapping his long legs crossed, playing with the car key in his hand.
His deep black eyes slightly lowered, and there was a subtle curve on his thin lips, seeming barely there, "Where are you?"
"At the hospital, visiting Aunt Zhou."
Hearing the woman’s words, Mu Jin Huan slowly stopped his action of turning the car key, his black eyes opened, still calm but deeper than usual.
After the curve on his lips disappeared, there was a bit more of an unfathomable aura.
His thin lips parted gently, "Find a nearby café and sit there. Wait for to pick you up."
As he spoke, he was already standing up, heading towards the door.
A kind of sweetness opened the floodgates in her heart, Nan Wan’s lips slowly uplifted, under the afterglow of the sunset, surrounded by a warm halo, her whole being seed to have fallen into the flas.
Her palm-sized oval face was more delicately outlined by the scattered hair, her voice softly and lightly, "No need for that, right? The driver drove here, and it takes just an hour to get ho."
Liu An was sitting in the car, noticing Mu Jin Huan walking out the door, perceptively getting out to open the backseat door for him.
"I need Mrs. Mu to accompany to attend a charity event. We need to pick out a dress when you get ho, the timing is a bit tight."
A charity ball?
Since getting married, Nan Wan had hardly attended such social engagents with him.
Initially, because there were no feelings between them, being watched by so many eyes and having to act with a semblance of marital intimacy was uncomfortable for both.
Later, when Nan Wan was pregnant, Mu Jin Huan never even ntioned it.
Standing at the hospital entrance, Nan Wan asked softly, "What charity event is it? Can’t you cancel it?"
Those occasions, simply put, were the foundations for high society to expand their social circles. The wealthy donated a few items for charity, followed by mutual flattery and exchanges.
Utterly boring.
Mu Jin Huan coaxed her patiently, "Just show up for a bit, we’ll leave after half an hour, okay?"
Gentle persuasion is the hardest to refuse.
"Alright," Nan Wan compromised, looking around and spotting a teahouse across the street, "I’ll wait for you there then."
After hanging up, Nan Wan asked the driver to leave and walked into the teahouse, choosing a table by the window and ordering a pot of tea.
She leaned on her hand, looking idly at the bustling street outside the window.
From this angle, she could just see the top floor of the hospital’s inpatient departnt, the sunset had only a small part left hanging on the horizon.
The person sitting on the rooftop maintained the posture of hugging their knees, far away.
Nan Wan couldn’t see clearly, just a small figure. If she hadn’t heard the conversation between the two nurses at the hospital, she perhaps wouldn’t have thought it was a living patient.
Watching this, it seed sowhat... lonely.
...
When she felt the ti was about right, Nan Wan settled the bill and walked out of the teahouse.
She wandered by the roadside for less than ten minutes before seeing Mu Jin Huan’s car. She stood under the streetlamp, not moving, waiting for him to co over.
The temperature at night was quite low, Mu Jin Huan walked up to the woman in big strides, naturally pulling her into his arms and wrapping her with his coat.
His eyebrows furrowed as he spoke in a steady voice, "Didn’t I tell you to wait for in a warm café?"
Inside the man’s coat, it was warm and cozy. Nan Wan raised her arms, wrapping them around his lean waist, lifting her head, the smile in her eyes particularly charming.
Her voice gentle and light, "It was a bit stuffy inside. You arrived just as I ca out for so air."
After Nan Wan tiptoed to give Mu Jin Huan a peck on the chin, the crease between his brows relaxed a bit.
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