86 Withdraw From Society (1/2)

As the plane started dipping for their arrival, Hui Yin parted the plush curtains and looked at Lu Shen in shock.

”We're in Zhangjiajie?”

Lu Shen laid down his newspaper and got up from the leather couch to stand next to her. From the window, all that could be seen of the view below was a vast spread of green with white cracks in it, like expanding tree roots.

Lu Shen paused, and tucked in a lock of wayward hair behind her ear.

”You once said you wanted to climb the 999 steps of the stairway to heaven.”

Hui Yin wanted to say, ”Well, I already ascended them,” but thinking it would shock him too much, she kept quiet. Hn, she really did mention it to him once before. There was a door-like cave in Zhangjiajie that was created after a cliff collapsed during ancient times, which they called as the 'Heaven's Gate'. Hui Yin had fancied in her younger years to take a photo of her climbing it and caption it with the sentence, ”I climbed the stairway to Heaven, and knocked on Heaven's door.”

She thought it was funny.

Now that she had already died once, Hui Yin felt that maybe her sense of humor needed some readjustment.

The hired car waited for them at the airport, but Hui Yin excused herself for a brief moment and went into a nearby souvenir shop. Lu Shen trailed after her, looking suspicious.

”Stop being so paranoid and wear this.” She slapped a nondescript black cap on his head and handed him a pair of sunglasses. ”You stand out too much. If we're going to tour around Zhangjiajie, I don't want girls shrieking around and bursting my eardrums.”

Hui Yin had also bought a mask to cover the lower half of her face, because although she was sure that no one would recognize her, the man beside her was too eye-catching. She didn't want anyone to associate her with him and create future problems.