The original flight home was changed to a train at Jiang Yuchi’s guilty insistence—a long, two-day-and-one-night journey. Xin Su was more than happy to oblige, and the two children had no objections; after all, in all their years, they had only ever seen trains in cartoons.
Yu Buying was slightly startled when she noticed the train’s engine didn’t have a human face, only to be mocked by Yu Buqi, which naturally led to them fighting. The familiar script played out just as it always did.
All day long, the two children pressed themselves against the train windows, looking out as if they were watching a vivid, unfolding film. From snow-capped mountains to vast, boundless grasslands, and from cities filled with towering skyscrapers to quaint, elegant towns, the scenery outside the window shifted incessantly. The snow on the peaks shimmered under the sunlight, and forests, cities, and villages spread out before the travelers like a massive, unrolling scroll.
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