On a highway in Jiangcheng, a private car was speeding along, packed to capacity with a total of five people including the driver.
In the front passenger seat sat a middle-aged man, while the back seat held three girls. One of them looked to weigh around one hundred and fifty or sixty pounds, occupying nearly half of the space on the side closest to the driver.
In the middle sat a young girl who looked thoroughly cramped, with only half of her hips actually on the seat. Her skin was somewhat dark and her hair a bit frizzy, and the whole way there she kept trying to curry favor with the girl sitting beside her.
That girl was wearing a Coach poplin dress and looked quite elegant. It was none of Chinese Feng Xi, whose attire and demeanor stood out in stark contrast to the atmosphere inside the car.
"Nana, how much longer until we arrive?" Feng Xi asked, a look of worry clouding her face.
"Almost there, Xiaoxi. We're already in Jiangcheng." Zhou Na was also Feng Xi's classmate. Having shared a desk for two years, she was Feng Xi's loyal follower.
This was because Feng Xi always brought her things she had never seen or tasted before, and treated her to dinners at restaurants she would never have dared to enter alone.
Hearing that Feng Xi wanted to go to Jiangcheng but had her ID card confiscated by her family, Zhou Na had come up with this idea for her and booked a ride-sharing car on a platform.
"It's just, Xiaoxi, where are we going to find Xu Lai once we get to Jiangche…
Chapter 54