Twenty-five years later…
The temperature in Capital City was turning colder.
Su Ruan tapped her pen on the table as she looked out the window and looked at the festivity atmosphere around her. The color was vibrant and the lights were fascinating. In a week, it would be Christmas, and everywhere around her was decorated to celebrate this festivity.
Her gaze darted towards the cafe across the street. The staff from Coffee Sanctuary was busy handing over some brochures of their latest promotion for Christmas. Su Ruan stared at the boy for a long time and became fascinated with the costume he wore.
Sensing that someone was approaching, Su Ruan finally turned around. Her friend, Lin Qing, set a tray of hot coffee on the table and took a seat in front of her.
"Sugar?" Lin Qing raised a brow.
"Just one." She watched as her friend dropped one cube of sugar into her coffee and stirred it well.
Lin Qing pushed the cup of hot coffee across the table and peeked at the drawing on her friend's notebook. It was filled with some doodles that she could not understand. "What are you thinking about?"
Su Ruan took a sip from her coffee and frowned. It was a little too hot. Her head turned to look at the boy in that costume across the street again. "Do you think that a human could grow horns?"
There was a brief silence between them.
"What nonsense are you sprouting?" Lin Qing did not know whether this was supposed to be a joke or what. She followed Su Ruan's gaze and saw that the man who was passing the brochure was wearing a dear antler's headpiece. Lin Qing decided that her friend was infected by the festivity mood that her mind started to think strangely.
Su Ruan turned to her friend again. "I have never told anyone about this but ever since I was a little girl, I often had this dream where a boy had suddenly grown horns."
The blurry image of a young boy with scales on his face and a short horn on his head reappeared on her head.
Now that she thought about it carefully, the horn was not a reindeer's.
The corner of Lin Qing's lips started to twitch. "Su Ruan, are you not awake yet? You should drink your coffee."
A heavy sigh escaped her. Su Ruan was fully aware of what her friend was thinking about her. She drank a mouthful of coffee and shrugged. "I know that it was just a dream. But I can't stop thinking about it."
"You're just too tired from work."
"Maybe." A frown appeared on her face as Su Ruan thought about her unreasonable boss again. "I swear that my boss, Gao Leng was trying to make things difficult for me. Last night, he asked me to accompany him to a business dinner." Her mood turned sour as she thought about the group of old men who tried to push more drinks at her.
Moreover, that Gao Leng… It was not the first time that he had asked her to do something like that. Su Ruan was aware that her boss was interested in her. That man has been asking her out ever since she had entered the company. However, Su Ruan had rejected him and had made it clear to him that she was not interested.
However, it did not seem as if that man understood her words. Gao Leng continued to pester her.
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