章 659: Unanticipated Freefall (1)

Xu Weilai couldn't help but frown and ask, "What now?"

Gu Yu replied in a deeper voice, "The power is out."

"No way!"

The maintenance man had just promised to fix the elevator quickly and yet a power failure happened right after what he said. Xu Weilai was well aware that this would deprive them of all contact with the outside world.

"They should be here soon, don't be afraid."

Xu Weilai could hear Gu Yu's voice in the darkness and although he sounded as frigid as usual, he was speaking to her in a tone of voice that he hadn't used for a long time. Startled by this, she glanced up at him.

Ever since their divorce, he had been extremely cold and indifferent towards her to the point where it felt as if she was an insignificant stranger and that the things that had happened between them were merely a figment of her imagination.

When she heard his sudden reassurance, for a moment, she even thought that she had misheard him.