She didn't speak for a while after the call was connected, and there was no sound on the other end of the phone. The only sound coming through the airwaves was her heavy breathing.
Jing Yu grew up with him and knew him too well. Even with just the sound of breathing, she was sure it was him—Liang Shengyi.
"What's up?" She was the first to speak and break the silence. Her tone was neither cold nor warm, and there was no emotion in her words. There was no surprise, no joy, and no anger.
There is only coldness.
Her heart had already turned cold when he packed his luggage, cancelled the engagement and left her behind.
"..." On the other side, Liang Shengyi still didn't speak.
Jing Yu sighed, "If everything is fine, I'll hang up."
Qi Jinnian noticed that her tone was not right, so he turned to look at her and quietly made lip gestures to her, "Who is it?"
Jing Yu just gave her a look. Then Liang Shengyi said, "Xiao Yu, don't hang up..."
“…” Jing Yu said nothing.
Liang Shengyi continued, "How have you been lately?"
There was a hint of distress and haggardness in his tone, as if there were many unspeakable secrets.
"I'm living a good life." Jing Yu replied.
"That's good." Liang Shengyi sighed. With a bitter smile, "I know that after I left, those debt collectors have bothered you. But don't worry, there won't be a next time. I have asked my friends in China to pay off those debts. Don't worry, they won't bother you again."
Hearing Liang Shengyi say this, Jing Yu was puzzled. The debt owed by the Liang family was a huge sum of money. Liang Shengyi had borrowed from friends before going abroad, but after the Liang family got into trouble, no one wanted to be associated with the Liang family, so they avoided them as much as possible. Jing Yu was quite surprised that someone was willing to donate generously this time.
"That's a good thing." No wonder the creditors haven't come looking for her recently. She originally thought that the reason she called the police last time had deterred them.
Liang Shengyi smiled bitterly and asked in a low voice: "Xiao Yu... do you have a new boyfriend?"
Jing Yu stared at the dark night outside the window and smiled, "Yes, I have it. He is very good."
"Excellent?" Liang Shengyi seemed to be stimulated by this sentence, and there was a strong sense of unwillingness in his words, "Yu'er, don't be fooled by his appearance! He is cruel and ruthless. Do you really think he is with you because he likes you? In fact, he has other purposes! Yu'er, believe me, he is lying to you! You can't be with him!"
He became more and more excited as he spoke, his voice rising high and overflowing from the phone, and even Qi Jinnian could hear it clearly.
Jing Yu frowned, as she felt that Liang Shengyi's words were hinting at something.
Qi Jinnian had already snatched the phone away and angrily said, "Mr. Liang, our Yu'er hasn't told us who her boyfriend is yet, and you're so anxious that you're insulting her without knowing the truth. Aren't you too petty?"
"I… "
"What?" Qi Jinnian didn't even give Liang Shengyi a chance to speak. "If you care about Yu'er so much, you shouldn't have run away from it! Now you regret it and want to look for our Yu'er again? I tell you, don't even think about it! Even if Yu'er agrees, I won't agree!"
"Qi Jinnian, this is a matter between us, so stay out of it." Liang Shengyi's expression was cold.
Qi Jinnian chuckled without giving any face, "Do I need to interfere in your affairs? It's over long ago. Don't have any illusions about Yu'er. She has many suitors chasing her now!"
Jingyu was changing clothes nearby. Hearing the two of them arguing on the phone, he didn't care. Jinnian was a powder keg. She had been upset with Liang Shengyi for a long time because of the last time she broke off the engagement. Now that he called her, it was natural that she was directly hitting the nail on the head.
Jing Yu was unwilling to talk too much to Liang Shengyi. It was over between them. Even if she would feel depressed when she thought about it occasionally, it didn't mean that they could start over.
"Yu'er, Yu'er! You have a new call. Do you want to hang up Liang Shengyi's phone?" Qi Jinnian suddenly spoke.
When Liang Shengyi heard this, he gritted his teeth and said, "Qi Jinnian, you dare to hang up!"
Jing Yu said calmly: "Hang up. See who's calling."
Qi Jinnian smiled and said to Liang Shengyi proudly: "Did you hear that? Mr. Liang, I'm sorry, I have to hang up! Goodbye! No, goodbye forever!"
As she spoke, she hung up the phone without caring what Liang Shengyi wanted to say.
"The phone is still ringing." Qi Jinnian threw the phone to Jing Yu.
Jing Yu looked at it and saw that it was an unfamiliar landline number. She put it to her ear and heard the other end say, "Hello, is this Doctor Jing?"
"it's me."
"I'm your father's attending physician. The old man has just been discharged from the hospital, but some of the latest reexamination results will not be available until tomorrow, so please come and pick them up tomorrow."
Jing Yu thought he had misheard, "What did you just say? You said... my dad was discharged from the hospital?"
"Yes. Miss Jing, don't you know?" The attending doctor was quite surprised. "Just now, the dean came over in person to explain the discharge procedures in the hospital."
Jing Yu: “…”
The director was dispatched directly to discharge my father from the hospital without any signature from family members
"So has my dad been discharged from the hospital now?"
"Yes. I was picked up by the car an hour ago."
"What car took you away?"
"Several black business cars took him away. Could it be that Miss Jing didn't know about this? Or was he taken away by other family members of the old man?"
Jing Yu immediately denied this possibility. Ever since the Liang and Jing families got into trouble, they had almost no contact with their relatives. With his father paralyzed, no one would take the initiative to get close to him.
The only relatives left were Chen Wanzhi and Jing Rong. But it was impossible for either of them to do so.
Yu Zeyao's face flashed through her mind unconsciously. In her life, perhaps only that man could be so unscrupulous and do whatever he wanted.
But why did he do this? What did he want to do? Where did he take his father
Jingyu only spoke briefly to the attending doctor and hung up the phone in a hurry. Qi Jinnian saw her pale face and asked worriedly, "What's wrong? What happened?"
Jing Yu was anxious. She didn't bother to reply, and quickly searched for the number that Yu Zeyao had called her before. After dialing the number, she walked to the balcony and heard a "beep-beep" sound in the receiver. During this time, she had never felt that these sounds were so disturbing.
"Hello, hello." The call was finally connected. However, the person who answered the phone was not Yu Zeyao, but Cheng En.
"I want to see Mr. Yu."