Chapter 14
Chen Hong, who was sitting at the side with Zheng Weize and Chang Jinxing, whispered something, and they all cracked up.
“What’s so funny?” Zhang Yuwen asked, confused.
Chang Jinxing, still bowled over with laughter, picked up his camera and seized his chance to take a candid photo of Zhang Yuwen.
“Stop that!” Zhang Yuwen didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, figuring Chen Hong must have made some kind of indecent remark.
“You’ve got a great figure. You should flaunt it more,” Chang Jinxing said.
Everyone erupted into laughter again, blatantly ogling Zhang Yuwen’s half-naked body. Huo Sichen applied the medicated oil for Zhang Yuwen and gestured for him to put his shirt back on, lest he catch a cold.
By the time they reached the top, it was already 5 p.m. The sky was overcast, warning of rain to come. “Let’s have hot pot tonight,” Zhang Yuwen suggested.
Everyone concurred. There was nothing better than sitting in a shop with rain-speckled glass windows on a winter day when you were ravenous and exhausted, enjoying steaming hot pot with your friends.
“Do you have somewhere else you need to be?” Zhang Yuwen asked Huo Sichen.
Huo Sichen considered it for a moment. “Nope, I don’t.”
Zhang Yuwen gave him a knowing look, but Huo Sichen seemed confused by it. Having breathed in the air at the mountaintop, everyone was in better spirits, their exhaustion from the hike up promptly forgotten.
But in the next moment, fate dealt them a merciless blow:
The cable car is out of service.
No access down the mountain.
“WHAT—?!” Zheng Weize almost fainted.
Everyone stood before the signboard, shivering.