He embraced her forcefully. She leaned into his chest.
A long silence hung in the air, as if time itself had stopped, leaving only his burning breath and her pounding heart.
At that moment, it wasn't nervousness, nor panic, nor anger, nor fear. It wasn't even the feeling of being deceived... No, none of that. She was simply astonished. So astonished, in fact, that she kept her eyes tightly shut for a long time, utterly bewildered.
How could this be?
Her mind seemed to have stopped functioning, incapable of thought, leaving her completely still in his embrace as he held her.
He made no other excessive movements. He just continued to hold her like that.
He had longed for this for so long: to hold her, just like this.
Xixi, I just want to hold you like this.
This was their longest embrace, and also the most absurd. Wan Donglin felt as if a great burden had been lifted, as if the sky falling wouldn't even matter anymore.
