Only He Ya Ru and Wu Yuan remained in the building on the left.
They sat on the sofa in the living room on the first floor, squabbling and messing around like sisters. To be honest, given their usual outward appearance, anyone familiar with them would be shocked to see them behaving this way.
A few minutes later, they both leaned against the sofa side by side, exhausted.
They nestled against each other, whispering intimately.
Not long after, a call came in on He Ya Ru's phone. As soon as she saw the caller ID, her expression naturally shifted to a more neutral one. She answered the call, spoke a few undistinguished sentences, then hung up.
As usual, Li Shi set his fishing gear up without making a nest of bait. He lodged his rod in a crevice of a nearby stone, then pulled out his phone and started scrolling through videos on TikTok while sitting on the bluestone steps.