Leng Shaoqing quickly tore off the seal behind the photo frame and removed Ji Yan's photograph, revealing a group photo inside.
At that moment, when he and Ye Rui sat on the Ferris wheel reaching the highest point of the city, the entire Aus City was beneath their gaze, a resplendent city that never sleeps with its myriad of twinkling lights.
Ye Rui aimed her cell phone at them, and their two heads snuggled close together, framed within her phone's screen, as she exclaimed, "One, two, three, Shaoqing."
Her smile revealed pearly white teeth, and he too had a curl to his lips, with a flirtatious charm swirling in his eyes.
It turns out, they too once smiled with pure and carefree joy; it turns out, they too once had such an affectionate group photo.
When Ye Rui happily brought the printed photo to him, he nonchalantly stuffed it into the frame; later, he layered Ji Yan's photograph over it because he told himself he loved Ji Yan, and everything he did was for Ji Yan.
