After Jing Jiaren came back from the hospital, she was washing up and getting ready to go to bed when there was a knock on the door, and Chen Ma came in with a wireless phone receiver.
"Miss Cousin, this is your phone number."
Jing Jiaren was startled. Not long after she returned to Jing's house, she didn't have many friends in City B. Logically speaking, no one would contact her.
Unless—Shang Yanxuan!
"Just say I'm not home."
"But, he knows that you have just arrived home."
Jing Jiaren hesitated for a moment and answered the phone.
Forget it, let's talk things out clearly. Can keeping avoiding solve the problem? They owe an end to each other.
There was no sound from there, so she bit her lip and said, "Hello?"
No response.
"say."
"..."
A long silence spread, and there was no sound from there. Was he too guilty to speak?
Why did her heart feel like it was being grabbed by a hand when she thought it was him on the other end of the phone?
Jing Jiaren bit her lower lip tightly: "Is it you? Stop trying to be mysterious to me. I know it's you, Shang Yanxuan, why did you come to me for it!"
This end.
Jing Jiaren didn't answer the phone for a long time. He put down the phone and refilled his glass of whiskey.
Holding the tea cup with his slender fingers, Ximen Longting was wearing a white bathrobe. His hair was damp and soft after just taking a bath, and his clothes were loose, adding a touch of wildness.
Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows is the beautiful night view of Los Angeles.
Sitting in the rocking chair, drinking whiskey comfortably, pressing the hands-free button on the phone——
[Is it you? Stop trying to be mysterious to me, I know it’s you, Shang Yanxuan, why are you still looking for me!]
His eyebrows wrinkled.
Ximen Longting's handsome face showed a cold and murderous look.
"Shang Yanxuan?"
"It's you?!" Jing Jiaren's mind stopped for dozens of seconds.
"So you were waiting for your old lover to call," he said in a cold and joking voice, "It's not him. You must be quite disappointed?"
Jing Jiaren's heart tightened, she did feel empty in her heart, but she soon had a trace of luck——
The call was not from Shang Yanxuan, which proved that he did not know her whereabouts yet.
"Yes, I feel disappointed when I hear your voice," Jing Jiaren deliberately angered him, "I should say disgusted!"
"Woman, you are so brave. I have only been away for a day and you dare to have a secret meeting with a man."
"Please be respectful. When will I have a private meeting with a man?"
"You're waiting for his call."
"That's ridiculous. I just got his phone number wrong - why should I explain to someone like you?" Jing Jiaren didn't want to waste any time, so she cut off the phone and returned it to Chen's mother.
But soon the phone rang again.
Chen Ma held the receiver in a dilemma: "Miss, it must still belong to Master Xi."
Jing Jiaren said angrily: "You know it's his, why didn't you tell me in advance?"
Chen Ma: "I thought you knew...Besides, you didn't ask me?"
Jing Jiaren grabbed her hair irritably. Was she driven crazy by Ximen Longting, so she made such a big mistake? She made random guesses without asking who the caller was...
Damn, the ringing is so annoying. What on earth is he thinking?!
"Unplug the telephone bus." Jing Jiaren ordered.
Chen's mother shook her head: "Master said, Master Xi is a distinguished guest of our Jing family, and we must not neglect him. Miss Cousin, just answer it, otherwise if the phone rings endlessly, all the Jing family will be shocked tonight.
No need to sleep anymore…”
Jing Jiaren took a deep breath and picked up the phone: "What do you want to do?"