The sky was dark with a rumbling sound. The wind blew so strongly, causing the pedestrian to seek shelter hurriedly. They preferred to wait until the sky cleared up rather than continue walking with the risk of being blown off the ground. One would only need to look at the sky to know that a storm would come.
Under such a gloomy sky, a woman with long hair and sunken cheeks wandered with a vacant expression. She strolled with no care for her surroundings. The woman's hair fluttered wildly around because of the wind. She wore a khaki trench coat and black cotton pants. Her feet, which were wearing black heels, looked extremely cold in this harsh weather.
Li Caiyi could hear the sound of wind beside her ears. The chilly breeze felt sharp and heavy on her skin. She tightened her coat as she walked faster.
"Hey, the lady over there! It would be best if you came inside a building first. I heard there would be a storm tonight. Don't wander around. It's dangerous!"
Li Caiyi could hear it, but she pretended not to. She kept walking without doing so much as looking back. The man who screamed the warning cursed her for being ungrateful and ignorant, but Li Caiyi didn't care.
After walking for some time, she finally arrived at what could be discerned as a construction site. However, the construction seemed to stop halfway and left in a state of incompleteness. The fence was high and wrapped with barbed wire, but Li Caiyi knew the gate was unlocked.
How did she know? It's because someone had entered this place before.
As far as Li Caiyi knew, this building was supposed to be a department store until the investor pulled back at the last moment and caused the construction to stop in the middle. The project manager was devastated and committed suicide by jumping from the top of this building. Later, this site was abandoned and left just as it was until now. Nobody dared to come closer since a rumor said this land was ominous.
That incident was very well-known in this city, so much that even a housewife like Li Caiyi ever heard her husband mention it.
Li Caiyi let out a bitter laugh when she realized she had just called that man her husband again in her mind, like a broken record. It was just a few hours ago when she signed a divorce paper, signaling the end of her lonely and bleak marriage, yet here she was, remembering her ex-husband again.
Li Caiyi shook her head, then entered the vast dry land without a single blade of grass in it. There were mounds of sand and gravel, as well as bricks and sacks of cement neatly arranged on one side, but she just casually swept over them before she passed through. She found the stairs quickly and climbed to the top floor. The wind raged outside, causing a creaking sound from the half-made windows. It felt like it could break apart easily, but Li Caiyi didn't care. This building would be demolished, anyway.
It didn't take long for Li Caiyi to reach the topmost floor. Her hand trembled ever so slightly in her pocket. Li Caiyi wanted to laugh at herself for that.
"You have reached this far, so what are you afraid of? Stop being so pathetic." She muttered to no one.
Li Caiyi dug her nails into her palm, and the pain slightly eased her nervousness. She stepped into the open space on the topmost floor. The wind blew harshly up there. If she wasn't careful enough, she might have just blown away like a speck of dust.
Li Caiyi bent down as she walked against the wind. She squinted to look ahead and was surprised when she found another person there.
A man with a black windbreaker stood on top of the half-complete wall. He stood with his back on her, looking dazedly at the view below.
She didn't know what he was thinking, going to this dangerous building in such bad weather. However, a second later, realization struck her, and she swallowed the words on the tip of her tongues. Instead, she moved closer to him. She deliberately made some noises so as not to scare him too much.
The man turned back, and his eyes slightly widened when he saw her, but his expression quickly changed into an indifferent one.
"Are you going to jump?" Li Caiyi asked him. The man didn't answer but only stared at her with an inexplicable expression. She took his silence as an affirmation.
"Don't worry; I won't stop you. You came here first, so I'll come back later." Li Caiyi turned back and was about to leave when the man called out to her in a hoarse voice.
"Are you going to jump too?"
"Yeah, but since you got here first, I won't disturb you."
"Why?"
By why did he mean why Li Caiyi wanted to jump? She couldn't answer him immediately. Not because she didn't want to answer, but simply because she didn't know where to start. Everything was just messed up at this point.
"You seem to live a good life based on your clothes." The man said casually.
Li Caiyi looked down at her outfit, and indeed, she looked like a woman from a wealthy house, no matter how you looked at it. Her trench coat was a present from her brother for her 27th birthday, which means she only had this for half a year. It still looked as new as she first received it. She heard her brother especially order this for her; though it was only out of obligation, she appreciated his effort.
It was weird. A few hours ago, her heart ached so much just by remembering her family, but now, everything seemed distant and mundane. The second when I stepped onto this floor, she had let go of her lingering attachments to them.
She laughed bitterly. "Then, should I come back later with more shabby clothes? So I would look more pathetic when they found my corpse later?"
The man's brow furrowed at my sarcastic remark. "That's not what I mean."
Li Caiyi shrugged her shoulders. "I know, I'm just joking. Not every gold is glittering. Even those with money have their issues."
The man silently nodded his head. Li Caiyi observed him with interest.
Looking at him, he looked like a fine man. His body was tall with a wide shoulder. His hair was messy after being blown by the wind, but it couldn't hide his sharp and chiseled face. He had a pair of deep and slightly upturned eyes, with prominent eyebrows and a high nose bridge.
He gave off a unique aura that differed from Meng Renshu, who was serene and dignified. This man seemed to carry a hidden depth and wilderness in him, ready to be unleashed if Li Caiyi did so much as to provoke him.
Li Caiyi wanted to slap herself when she realized what she was thinking. How could she compare this stranger to her ex-husband? Has she gone crazy? Even if she preferred men like Meng Renshu more, then so what? That man didn't want her and only had eyes for Li Chunhua. Besides, this man wasn't that bad either. He looked more robust and sharper, but it was also charming in his own way.
'Just forget about those people and move on.' Li Caiyi told herself.
"Then, do you want to do it together?"