Chapter 2451 — Cable Car Failure
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"N-no... no need..." Wang Xinyan turned her gaze outside the cable car, toward the two rolling snow peaks beyond, with a bottomless valley between them. It was all so beautiful, so refreshing to the heart—if only the person riding the cable car with her had been Wei Zhao.
At the thought of Wei Zhao, quite out of nowhere, Wang Xinyan gave a small start. She realized that ever since Wei Zhao had confessed to her, she had grown a little unsteady, thinking of him often. She had thought of him before, too, but only vaguely; now, whenever he came to mind, she always placed him in the position of her boyfriend. The situation left her rather troubled. She knew it could not go on like this, and yet she had no way to stop it.
The hardest thing in the world to control is the human heart. Feelings cannot be altered by an act of will. Even if Wang Xinyan deliberately tried not to think of Wei Zhao, reminding herself not to think of him was itself a way of thinking of him. It truly was difficult.
"Xinyan, tell me—do you think this cable car might go rumbling down?" Kang Jinglong asked.
"H-how would I know?" Wang Xinyan frowned. Couldn't Kang Jinglong say something auspicious for once? Why did boarding a cable car make him think of the thing breaking down?
"It's not impossible for a cable car to plunge into the valley," Kang Jinglong said. "But it doesn't matter—I've brought wilderness survival gear..."
"..." Wang Xinyan was genuinely speechless. Kang Jinglong really was the ideal boyfriend—who tells disgusting jokes over dinner, then starts cursing the cable car the moment he boards it? If it were Wei Zhao, he would probably seize the chance to hold her and cultivate...
Why was she thinking of Wei Zhao again? Wang Xinyan shook her head...
Seeing her shake her head, Kang Jinglong assumed Wang Xinyan did not believe the cable car would fall. Under ordinary circumstances, of course, it would not—but current circumstances were rather special!
These past few days, Kang Jinglong had been studying that book, *The Prequel of Faint Light of Old Dreams*. In it, the protagonist went courting at a ski resort, where the hero and heroine fell together into a valley, survived together in the wild, and in the end, romance blossomed!
In a deserted wilderness, especially when danger strikes, people are at their most helpless—and if Kang Jinglong played his cards carefully then, winning Wang Xinyan's heart should be no problem at all.
But what one fears most arrives most surely. Wang Xinyan was still admiring the lovely view outside when she suddenly heard a tremendous rumble. Then a wave of weightlessness struck her, and she realized with a shock that the cable car she was in had slipped free of the cable and was plunging straight down into the valley!
"Ah?" Wang Xinyan was a little dazed, silently cursing Kang Jinglong as a jinx. Next time, even if her mother spoke up for him, she would absolutely never be alone with Kang Jinglong again. The man's luck was rotten—one day he was getting beaten by robbers, the next by petty thugs; buy a snowboard and he gets cheated; ride a cable car and it snaps midway. The god of misfortune had clearly taken up residence in him.
Kang Jinglong, of course, had no idea that Wang Xinyan had already classified him as a dangerous person best kept at a distance. He was still swelling with pride over how cleverly he had arranged all this!
He had surveyed the geographical layout of this ski resort beforehand. The cable car ran between two mountains; below it lay a lake, with caves nearby—practically a paradise for lovers' getaways. If he and Wang Xinyan could lose themselves here together, he was sure something interesting would happen. Alone and helpless, Wang Xinyan would surely open her heart to him.