Chapter 78: First This Way, Then That Way

After the four of them had gathered.

Bai Shi, sitting in the driver's seat, and Sun Huwen, in the passenger seat, teased each other, calling one "the third wheel" and the other "the good girl."

They'd been affectionately bickering since the moment they got in the car.

They seemed to have endless topics of conversation, chatting about everything from one end of the earth to the other, from Shakespeare to Murakami Haruki, from moon landing conspiracies to Zone 51, from Bottus to Bruno Latour...

In contrast to those two, Chen Yun and Jiang Anping in the backseat were much quieter, presenting a starkly different scene from the front.

It was as if a Chu River and Han boundary stretched across the middle of the car, clearly delineating the different styles of the front and rear.

Apart from when they first got in the car, when Chen Yun introduced himself, followed by a polite nod from Jiang Anping,

the two in the back had no further conversation.