In the middle of the night, when I picked up the phone, the sound was a woman crying, which made me panic just thinking about it.
I was so frightened that I changed from lying down to sitting. I held the corner of the quilt tightly with one hand and held my cell phone in the other. I shouted with a nervous look on my face: "Du Ting?"
After a few seconds, Du Ting's voice came from inside. She choked and said: "Zijin, I'm sorry, I was wrong. I shouldn't have said that to you..."
She suddenly told me this, which made me very confused.
After a few seconds of pause, I replied: "Du Ting, what's wrong with you?"
Du Ting cried and said: "Zijin, I beg you, go and talk to Xiangdong. I don't want to break up with him. I really like him... I don't want to leave him."
I:"… "
Holding the phone, I couldn't say a word.
Du Ting was crying sadly on the other end of the phone. I could feel it. It was not an act. She must have been drunk, and her sentences were not very logical. She was just begging me to let me intercede with Luo Xiangdong and not to break up with her.
I feel an indescribable sourness in my heart. Although I am not a person with Du Ting's personality and will never seek reconciliation, we are both women and I can understand the feeling of one person loving another person very much.
After a while, I whispered: "Du Ting, please stop doing this."
Du Ting said: "Zijin, I really love Xiangdong. When he told me to break up, I was angry with you, so I agreed directly. However, I regret it now. I am not I really want to break up with him, I just wanted to make him angry, but now he doesn’t even listen to my calls..."
Holding the phone feels like a hot potato, but I can't throw it away.
Feeling uncomfortable in my heart, I replied aloud: "Du Ting, feelings are a matter between two people, and everyone else is an outsider. I... can't control it."
Du Ting cried and said, "It's up to you, Zijin. I know Xiangdong listens to you. As long as you say a word to him, he will definitely forgive me. I beg you."
This was the first time in my life that a woman was crying and pleading. As long as I can help with this matter, I will definitely help. But…
Xu Lu is right, I have wronged myself many times. If I even have to talk about this kind of thing, then what have I become
People always have to make many helpless choices in this life. What is before me now is to fulfill Du Ting or disgust myself. Of course I choose the latter.
Holding the phone, I barely hesitated and replied softly: "I'm sorry, Du Ting, I can't help you with this matter."
Du Ting was silent for a long time, and finally cried and said, "Why? Because you also like Luo Xiangdong?"
I said: "No."
Du Ting was so emotional that she shouted loudly: "You lied!"
I didn't answer, and she cried and said, "Why do you still lie to me now..."
Compared to her hysteria, I looked extremely calm. My lips parted slightly, and I replied aloud: "Du Ting, I told you that I will not get involved in the matter between you and Luo Xiangdong. You should resolve your own matters."
With that said, I'm going to hang up the phone.
Du Ting quickly answered: "Liang Zijin, I don't ask you to help me plead with Luo Xiangdong. I just want you to tell the truth. Do you like Luo Xiangdong?"
"I don't like it." My tone remained the same, and I couldn't hear anything out of the ordinary.
When Du Ting heard this, she sneered on the other end of the phone, and then said: "Liang Zijin, I really don't understand the relationship between you and Luo Xiangdong. If you both like each other, then why don't you just get together? Why? Are you going to harm me?”
Du Ting's voice seemed like a slap in the face through the phone. I even felt like she was standing in front of me. My mind was filled with images of her glaring, pointing her hand at my nose and questioning me, and I was shocked all over.
Holding back my guilty conscience, I replied bravely: "Du Ting, the reason why I still answer your call is not because I have done anything wrong, but because you have never really hurt me. If you still say If you insist that I am the one who caused the instigation between you and Luo Xiangdong, then there is nothing I can do about it, and I will not answer your calls again."
Du Ting said coldly: "Then do you dare to swear on your own life that you have never liked Luo Xiangdong and have never wanted to be with him?!"
I have to say that Du Ting's words stepped on my weakness.
I have believed in the cycle of karma and retribution since I was a child, so once I have a clear conscience, I will always say "I swear".
Now that Du Ting asked me to swear on my life, I finally hesitated between lies and faith.
It only took three seconds, but Du Ting had already spoken. She said in an extremely mocking and angry voice: "Liang Zijin, you can deceive others but you can't deceive me! I can't do anything to you, but we'll see. , I curse you and Luo Xiangdong to never have a good outcome in this life!"
After that, she hung up the phone before me.
I was about to fall asleep, but Du Ting made such a fuss in the middle of the night. I couldn't sleep the whole night, always feeling that I would suffer some retribution.
At dawn the next day, I was so tired that I squinted for a while. I had a dream. In the dream, Du Ting was chasing me with two kitchen knives. I ran forward as hard as I could. There was a pair of forked roads in front of me. I hesitated for a moment and then ran to the left. As a result, I saw the front in the distance. Li Yanshu looked at me with her face covered in blood. She said to me: "Liang Zijin, if you dare to rob Luo Xiangdong, I will kill you today!"
I stopped and wanted to turn around and go back, but I saw two figures behind me, namely Du Ting and Liu Shiqi.
One by one, they wanted to chop me into pieces and feed them to the dogs. I opened my eyes suddenly and stared at the ceiling in a daze. It took me a long time to dare to move my arms.
This dream was so terrifying that when I got up and touched my forehead, I was covered in cold sweat.
I picked up my phone and took a look. It was already past 11:50 in the morning, almost twelve o'clock.
I looked through the call records, and the person at the top was Du Ting. Not to mention how disappointed I was, because I planned to lie to myself that everything last night was just a dream.
It turns out that Du Ting really called me and cursed me with retribution.
Just as I was thinking about it, my phone suddenly rang. I shivered with fright. I looked closely and saw '东' on the screen.
After pausing for a few seconds, I answered the phone: "Hello."
Luo Xiangdong's voice came from the mobile phone. He asked, "Are you up?"
I said 'hmm', and Luo Xiangdong said, "You haven't eaten, have you?"
I said, "Just get up."
"Clean up and I'll pick you up."
I said: "Forget it, I want to sleep a little longer."
Luo Xiangdong immediately said: "Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
"No. I took medicine last night and was drowsy."
Luo Xiangdong said: "You just have to take medicine so you can't have an empty stomach. I'll pick you up and have lunch together."
I felt inexplicably anxious and couldn't help but frown and replied, "I told you I wouldn't go."
As soon as these words came out, Luo Xiangdong fell silent. I closed my eyes, feeling that I was going too far.
Just when I was about to open my mouth and hug him back, Luo Xiangdong spoke before me. He said, "If you don't want to go out to eat, I'll order takeout for you. You can go downstairs and open the door later."
There was no emotion or anger in his voice, and it even sounded a bit indulgent.
I felt an indescribable feeling in my heart. I almost wanted to cry, but I had to hold it back.
I responded and said softly: "I don't want to talk. I'm a little tired. I'll hang up now."
Luo Xiangdong said: "Go to sleep."
After hanging up the phone, I lay on my side on the pillow, tears welling up from under my eyelashes and I couldn't stop them.
Half an hour later, the doorbell rang from downstairs, and I went down to open the door in my pajamas. It was the takeaway that Luo Xiangdong asked someone to deliver, and he had already paid for it.
I took several stacks of takeout boxes to the living room table and opened them, and found that they contained spicy potato slices, spicy cod, pork belly, three kinds of stir-fried vegetables, and two vegetables. These are all my favorite foods.
Looking at the takeout boxes spread out all over the table, my throat tightened and tears began to well up again.
Taking a deep breath, I forced myself to hold it in. She sheds tears all day long, almost catching up with Lin Daiyu. To be honest, I am not the kind of soft and weak character, let alone be hesitant and deceive. But for Luo Xiangdong... I hesitated.
To me, he is an important thing that I cannot have even if I fail.
When I pursued Chen Wenhang, I was still young and ignorant, and did not understand the feeling of loss; now that I have grown up, I know that I am afraid, I know that my heart hurts, and I also know that once something is broken, it will never go back to the beginning.
Fearless, so fearless. But now I am full of fear, fearing that if I make a wrong move, there will be no room for turning back between Luo Xiangdong and I.
I like him, but I'm not sure if he likes me. As long as he gives me a hint, even a affirmative look, I will be with him without hesitation.
I'm afraid of being criticized, and I'm even more afraid of making the wrong mistake.
…
I called Li Runzhu in the afternoon to confirm the exact time they would arrive in Night City. Just after six o'clock in the evening, I changed my clothes and walked out of the apartment and took a taxi to the train station.
On the way there, Luo Xiangdong called me again.
He asked me: "Have you received your friend?"
I said, "On the way there, they got off at 6:55."
Luo Xiangdong said: "If you entertain them in the evening, you can go to the restaurants and hotels I usually take you to and charge it to my account. Later, you will also arrange for them to stay at Luo's hotel. Don't you have a card?"
I said, "Don't worry, I still have this little money."
Luo Xiangdong said: "Remember not to drink during dinner, otherwise your injection will be in vain."
I pretended to be relaxed and replied: "Oh, I know, I know, why are you acting like an old woman?"
Luo Xiangdong said: "I also have a dinner party in the evening, so I won't go and greet your friends. You can take care of yourself."
I responded: "Okay, you can go about your business and don't worry about me."
Before hanging up the phone, Luo Xiangdong told him again: "If you really want to drink, don't take medicine when you go home at night. Be careful of allergies."
I replied carelessly: "How about you stop going to the dinner party and come over to our place and just look at me, okay?"
Luo Xiangdong said: "I don't care about you."
After that, he hung up the phone without giving me a chance to reply.