"Little Zhi, your boyfriend didn't come to pick you up?" Kevin stood beside the young girl, lightly twirling his car keys between his fingers.
It was already close to ten o'clock.
The company employees had been busy all day due to the product launch event, and only now were they trickling out, dragging their exhausted bodies as they clocked off.
The girl had originally left ahead of him, so seeing her still lingering downstairs took him by surprise.
Yu Zhi shook her head. "He had something to do."
She glanced at the ride-hailing app on her phone. Ten minutes had passed since she requested a car, but not a single driver had accepted her order.
The winter wind, sharp as icy knives, sliced mercilessly at her body. After standing in the cold for a while, her legs had started to grow numb.
"Let me take you home," Kevin smiled at her.
The keychain in his hand still had a white fuzzy pom-pom hanging from it—an incongruous addition—which jingled faintly as he swung the keys.
