Chapter 29

She had so many naughty moments orchestrated by her best friend and started feeling much better than when she arrived. Linlin was always a mood enhancer and a ray of sunshine on the darkest days. All these years, she knew that Linlin was the reason she kept going, kept reaching for something better, and never lost her optimism.

Linlin motioned for them to get up, glad they had not yet ordered anything, and led TangShi out of the restaurant in search of a hotpot café they could walk to. She hauled out her phone and hooked TangShi’s arm in hers as they hit the street into the dazzling sunshine and went searching.

“Oh, look before I forget. I found this last night while scrolling through our old pictures on Weibo. It was taken eight years ago, right before your trip to Beijing. We look so young.” Linlin turned her phone to show the saved picture. It was a photograph of a polaroid photograph held in Linlin’s hand. It was a little blurry but still easily identifiable as both