I looked at the time when Luo Xiangdong made his first call to me. It was just after twelve o'clock in the evening. The time difference between China and the United States is twelve hours, and it was just after noon on his side.
This is how I look now. Call him and he will be worried. And I have no evidence that Rong Xin harmed me, so I have to suppress this anger for the time being and wait for Luo Xiangdong to come back.
I sent him a text message and told him that I had fallen asleep earlier. Just saw it. Whether he believes it or not. I need to comfort him first, because others abroad are still worried about me.
I sent the text message and waited for ten minutes but he didn’t reply. Zhang Danqing said to me: "Zijin, take a nap. I'll call you when the injection is finished."
I responded. Slowly retreating, Zhang Danqing helped me place the pillow, and I fell asleep as soon as I touched the pillow.
It was a deep sleep. It was the sound of other people's voices that woke me up. I squinted my eyes and saw several people surrounding the hospital bed on the far right.
Zhang Danqing's voice came: "Did I wake you up?"
I instinctively stretched out my right hand and rubbed my eyes. Only then did I realize that there was tape on the back of my hand. The water has been drained.
"Have you finished the injection?"
"Yeah. I wanted you to sleep a little longer, so I didn't call you."
I whispered: "What time is it now?"
Zhang Danqing said: "It's only half past eight."
The only bad thing about public wards is that the family members who come in are not self-conscious. The talking was loud enough to wake the people in the next ward.
The woman I saw when I woke up last night. He was said to have committed suicide by cutting his wrists and was picked up by relatives early in the morning. After a group of people filed out, I immediately asked gossipingly: "Are the men here?"
"What?" Zhang Danqing and I are not on the same channel.
I had to point it out and ask: "That woman, aside from committing suicide for love, did the man come when I was asleep last night?"
Zhang Danqing said: "You are like this yourself, and you still want to gossip about others."
I raised the corners of my lips and replied with a slight smile: "I have nothing to do anyway."
Zhang Danqing didn't smile. He looked at me and said, "You were alone in Night City and didn't take good care of yourself. I caught up this time, but what about next time?"
I said: "There will be no next time." I almost said that what happened this time was not a coincidence, let alone an accident. It was possible that someone deliberately harmed me. But I can't tell Zhang Danqing this, otherwise with his temper, he doesn't care whose daughter Rong Xin is, and he will drag her out and beat her up.
I deliberately said it heartlessly, I just wanted to stop Zhang Danqing from worrying. But maybe it was my heartlessness that made God unhappy and had to go all out to punish me.
If I had known about the concept of striking first to gain advantage, I would never have suffered silently.
Zhang Danqing had just gone out to buy breakfast for me when I received a call from Wang Huining. I called out "Sister Huining" in a hoarse voice. Wang Huining said angrily: "Zijin, is that you in the video? "
I frowned slightly: "Huh? What video?"
Wang Huining said: "What's wrong with your voice? Didn't you read today's headlines? There is a video of less than one minute in which it is said that you kissed a strange man passionately in a nightclub. I just looked very much like you, so I called you quickly Telephone… "
I didn't even listen to what Wang Huining said next. From the moment she said the word "nightclub", my heart suddenly trembled.
There is no wifi in the hospital, and I am not in the mood to play with my phone. After she said this, I panicked. After hanging up the phone, I immediately turned on the data and swiped my phone.
Sure enough, the headline was 'Luo Xiangdong's girlfriend is suspected of passionately kissing a male waiter at a nightclub.' I clicked on it and saw that the video was obviously secretly filmed. Under dim vision, a man and a woman in the corridor were chatting. The man was wearing a waiter's uniform, dragging the body of a suspected drunken woman with one hand. The woman put her arms around the man's neck, stood on tiptoes, and desperately leaned in to kiss him.
The video slowly zoomed in from far away. Even though the light was very dim, I could recognize the man and woman in the video at a glance. It was me and Zhang Danqing.
The two of us were so close to each other in the picture that I couldn't tell whether he was on drugs or drunk. He was behaving crazily and tightly hugged Zhang Danqing's neck and refused to let go. Zhang Danqing held my waist with one hand, and the other hand was in a position that couldn't be captured in the video. I couldn't see whether he was pulling me or something.
The only thing I could see was my clear side face and even most of my side face when I shook my head. Zhang Danqing seemed to be talking to me, but I couldn't hear anything. I reached out and grabbed his collar and pulled him in front of me.
I stood on tiptoes to kiss him. I thought Zhang Danqing would turn his face away, but he... just stood there and let me kiss his lips again and again...
Looking down at the phone in my palm, I was stunned. Suddenly the screen stopped. I thought it was stuck, but it turned out that it had finished playing.
In just a few dozen seconds, I felt cold all over.
Zhang Danqing said it was okay, and I simply thought it was nothing. But what's going on with this video
The phone was paralyzed in my hand, and I couldn't hold it tightly. Suddenly, numbness started from my fingertips. I was frightened. When I lowered my head, I saw that it was an incoming call.
Caller: Talk about joy.
Tan Huan and I rarely communicated in private, and she suddenly called me. After much hesitation, I finally got through.
"Hey, let's talk."
Tan Huan was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Zijin, what's wrong with your throat?"
I was shocked and scared. I couldn't cry even if I wanted to. It felt like it was stuck in my throat, and that was all.
Seeing that I was silent, a low and anxious voice came from Tan Huan's end: "Zijin, have you seen the video? What's going on? Is that you? Yichuan asked me to call you to ask."
As the saying goes, family scandals should not be made public. I immediately had the illusion of being slapped in the face, even though I knew that many people were worried about me and not just to watch the fun.
The fingers holding the phone were trembling slightly, and I whispered: "Tan Huan, I was drugged in the nightclub last night..."
"Ah? How could this happen?"
The person on the other end of Tan Huan was obviously anxious. Tears welled up in my eyes, but I couldn’t fall down for some reason. Maybe it was because I was too scared.
Not long after, someone changed on the other end of the phone, and it was Qin Yichuan's voice.
He said 'hello' and then asked: "Where are you now?"
I sniffed and replied aloud: "In the hospital."
"Which hospital?"
Which hospital... I don't know. I don’t even remember how I got here. When I woke up, the sky was shattered.
I suppressed the fear in my heart and said out loud: "Wait until I ask."
I lifted the quilt and got out of bed and left the ward. There was a nurse on duty not far away, so I asked: "Which hospital is this?"
The nurse gave the name of the hospital, and I told Qin Yichuan. Qin Yichuan said: "Let's go there now."
After hanging up the phone, I returned to the ward and sat blankly beside the bed. No matter how hard I thought, I couldn't get over this hurdle in my heart. I was afraid that Luo Xiangdong would misunderstand me and Zhang Danqing after seeing this video, so I called him immediately.
In the past, Luo Xiangdong would pick up the beeping beeping sound three to five times, but today it had already rang six times.
I clenched the sheets tightly. I didn't want to explain to anyone at this moment. I just wanted to talk to Luo Xiangdong.
Finally, Luo Xiangdong answered, and his familiar voice came from the phone, but the voice was very low. He whispered: "I'm in a meeting, I'll call you later."
"Xiangdong..." I couldn't hold it back and already called him.
My voice was hoarse and I was crying. Luo Xiangdong was stunned for a moment and quickly said: "What's wrong? What happened?"
My throat was choked, but after a few seconds of pause, I held back my tears and tried to say to him in a calm tone: "Xiangdong, I'm causing trouble."
Luo Xiangdong must have come out of the conference room temporarily. His voice turned to a normal volume and he said to me calmly: "Don't be anxious. Speak slowly. What's wrong?"
I couldn't hide it anymore at this time, so I said truthfully: "I took Rong Xin and her friend from Canada to the nightclub last night. I don't know who drugged me. I, I thought Zhang Danqing was you." Yes, I kissed him in a nightclub and was videotaped..."
I don’t know why, but as soon as this incident came out, my first reaction was to find Luo Xiangdong first. Rather than letting others tell him, I should tell him myself.
Luo Xiangdong was actually silent for a while after hearing this. I'm not worried at the bottom of my heart. We are thousands of miles apart and we can't see the expressions on each other's faces or what we're thinking in each other's hearts.
But I know that for this plan, he is the only person I can count on.
Maybe it was three seconds, maybe it was five seconds. Luo Xiangdong's voice came through the mobile phone, still steady and down-to-earth. He said to me: "Don't worry, call Zeyu and ask him to block the video first, and then Check the source of the upload. Where are you now? "
I said, "I'm in the hospital. Brother Danqing sent me for gastric lavage."
I don’t need to tell you something. Since the stomach was washed, Luo Xiangdong should know that Zhang Danqing and I are fine.
Luo Xiangdong said: "Call Wei Zheng over and ask him to take you to his hospital to recover. I'll go back right away."
I said, "Don't worry about me. I just contacted Brother Yichuan and he said he was coming over."
Luo Xiangdong was suddenly silent, and I wasn't sure what he was thinking. The key was that I couldn't see the expression on his face.
As his silence became longer and longer, I felt more and more uncomfortable. Finally, I whispered: "Xiangdong..."
I did something wrong this time. Regardless of who administered the drug, I walked into the nightclub on my own, so no one else is to blame.
Maybe it was because I was so wrong that I couldn't cry anymore.
Luo Xiangdong said in a low voice: "Zijin, I'm sorry..."
I never expected that Luo Xiangdong would say sorry to me. When he finished speaking, my eyes suddenly turned red and I choked with sobs: "Why are you saying sorry to me..."
Luo Xiangdong only said: "Wait until I come back."
With Luo Xiangdong's words, I felt like I had taken a reassurance in my heart, and I was not afraid of anything anymore.
After hanging up the phone, I sat by the bed and wanted to cry several times, but I tried hard to hold it back. The harder I get, the stronger I have to be. I just did something wrong, not intentionally. As long as I find out who harmed me, I will never let it go.