Tang Jing had just realized that it was already approaching evening.
The shimmering surface of the river in front of her began reflecting the slanting rays of the setting sun, stinging her eyes, and piercing her heart as well.
It had been over two hours since she and Ye Yuqiao had parted ways.
If Ye Yuqiao were alive, she would definitely have come to find them, but Ye Yuqiao had not.
What did this mean?
Tang Jing dared not think about it, nor did she wish to contemplate it; she only wanted to hurry back to find Ye Yuqiao.
"We just followed the current downstream to get here," she said as she stood up with the help of Xie Xiaofeng.
Her gaze followed the winding course of the river upstream to the furthest point it reached, then, arm in arm with Xie Xiaofeng, she began to make her way back.
She did not know that her current location was twenty-three kilometers away from where they had separated.
Meanwhile, at this very moment, twenty-three kilometers away in a forest,