The sky gradually grew dark, and the streetlights on both sides of the road flickered on one by one as night began to fall.
Lu Chen drove his Zhonghua X7 urban SUV, inching forward at no more than ten miles per hour amid the surging traffic.
Although Beijing had shaken off the title of a "gridlocked city" several years ago, the roads along the Second and Third Ring Roads remained heavily congested during the evening rush hour, frequently plunging into frustrating standstills with no easy way out.
Chapter 175