54 How Embarrassing

"Were you also looking for me, Chuxi?" There was a lapse in Qin Xiruo's delicate smile, but she quickly recovered and masked her concern, continuing to speak in her carefully crafted tone of delicacy.

"Yes, I was." Ling Chuxi nodded, cheerfully maintaining her own artificial disposition. She casually turned towards the alley to check if Ling Xiaoting was still there to overhear all this. The alley was empty and he was nowhere in sight. He must have left quietly.