Chapter 48 Part1 (1/2)

Deep in the Act

Translator: Kotoni

Editor: Isalee

Quality Check: Isalee

First Published on Chaleuria

Chapter 481

It was just after five on a wintry , and the sun had not yet risen Gao Zhun exited the hotel and slowly h this debauched corner of town It was not a long walk Overhead, soft rain began to fall like fine drops of dew Afraid that his clothes would get wet, he sought shelter under the eaves of a club with lowered shutters Steeped in emptiness and boredom, he waited for the rain to stop

His phone started ringing He glanced at the screen, saw that it was Justin, and rejected the inco call with a tap He had lost track of just howe of unanswered calls flooded his screen as soon as he opened his call log, and he scrolled down the rows until he found his outgoing calls to Fang Chi There were so many of them, as many as there were of Justin's calls to him; all were equal in their wretchedness, and there was little difference in how pitiful they all see Chi's nuin thu of the dial tone Longing and panic churned within him; the more he dared to hope, the ht pick up his call scared hi up as the dial tone sounded for the third tier But his phone soon started ringing once h his body When he saw that it was yet another call frout and he answered his phone at last

”Sir!” The young man's voice quivered with the elation of one who had been bestoith an unexpected honor ”Where are you? My friend brought ht n-”

”Haven't we been through this before?” Gao Zhun cut hi”

After a h the phone, ”Sir… I really miss you…”

”Don't What happened between us was just a one-off,” Gao Zhun fired a single parting shot before hanging up Then, turning off his phone, he breathed deeply as if he were suffocated by it all

A ray road under his feet that his solitary figure looked rather lonely He, too, seeht out Despite how cold it was, he was clad in only a short-sleeved top, an old pair of jeans, and dirty sneakers Rain scattered all over his uncovered head and beaded in the short fuzz of his buzzcut