Chapter 603: Leaving the Black Market
Yang Huaixi’s heartfelt words were like a pebble cast into a calm lake, stirring ripples in the depths of Wang Jianguo’s heart. His thoughts drifted, involuntarily, back to the distant yet indelible memory of the Courtyard in Sìjiǔ City.
The floodgates of memory swung open, and the familiar scenes of the Courtyard rushed toward him like a tide. The grey-blue brick walls, the orderly layout of the houses, and the old pagoda tree in the yard that always cast such cooling shade in the heat of summer. The laughter of his grandmother and his uncle’s family, the crisp, cheerful voice of Xiao Dujuan, and the playful teasing of Yu Li and the others... But beauty is always fleeting.
Chapter 603