Chapter 214: Chapter 214
Le Tong kept her head down and finished the sorghum she bought, finally starting to see overlapping hallucinations before her eyes.
Among these overlapping hallucinations were two faces that looked strikingly similar. The difference was, the smaller face wore an innocent smile like an angel, while the larger face was cold and guarded.
Clearly, with such similar features, one made Le Tong want to hug him tightly and kiss him endlessly! But the other made her want to push him away, hoping never to see him again in this life!
Le Tong didn’t know how she later managed to crawl into bed in a drunken state, only that when she woke up, her head hurt so much she wanted to die!
Le Tong could hold her liquor well and rarely got drunk, maybe only four or five times in her memory, and the last time was at the Ji Family’s anniversary party. Compared to that time, this was obviously more comfortable, because now she only felt a headache and nothing else, whereas that day, it felt like her whole body was dismembered and reassembled, painfully, from head to toe!
Remembering that night, Le Tong frowned, raising her hand to block the glaring light streaming in from the curtains left unopened.
Le Tong struggled to get her heavy body out of bed, checked the time, and surprisingly it was already midday the next day. She stood by the window for quite a while before heading to the bathroom, and after coming out, she asked the service desk to send lunch, along with hangover and pain relief medicine.
After lunch, Le Tong took out her laptop, logged into QQ with her usual account, and before she could select "invisible", QQ started beeping with notifications.
Le Tong clicked to see, and the person looking for her was actually Yang Sheng, not Luo Yuanyuan as she had thought.
The hotel’s Wi-Fi speed was not great, so it took Le Tong a few seconds before the chat window fully opened, and multiple messages quickly appeared in the chat box once it did.
Great White Yang: Tongtong?! Is that you?
Great White Yang: Tongtong!!!!!!!!!!
Great White Yang: Tongtong... Tongtong...
Hehe: I’m here, hi Senior!
Great White Yang: You! (Violent beating)
From Yang Sheng’s emoji, Le Tong could imagine how worried she had made him during this time!
Hehe: Senior, I’m sorry, some things happened, and I temporarily left R City.
Le Tong took the initiative to apologize. Yang Sheng was one of her few friends, and a very close friend at that. Although they hadn’t known each other long, their friendship was much deeper than several years of friendship with Luo Yifan.
Yang Sheng didn’t respond; he was silent for a long time.
Le Tong stared anxiously at the screen, thinking, could it be that he really won’t speak to her anymore?
Just as she was wondering how to beg for Yang Sheng’s forgiveness, she received a video request from him. Le Tong hesitated, thinking of her own haggard image in the mirror, and ultimately declined his request, opting for a voice call instead.
Soon, Yang Sheng’s voice came through.
"Tongtong, tell me honestly, where did you run off to? Why have you kept your phone off? Why didn’t you tell me you were leaving? What do you take me for?"
Before Le Tong could even greet him, a barrage of questions rained down on her.
"Senior, I’m sorry! I left in too much of a hurry, and my phone was left at home. Later, I simply got a new number, and since there was no contact list in the new phone, I couldn’t notify you."
Le Tong’s excuse wasn’t very convincing, but Yang Sheng probably didn’t truly want to delve into it; he just needed a reason to vent his frustration.
As expected, Yang Sheng was silent for a moment, not dwelling on the phone issue, but instead moved directly onto another topic that only gave Le Tong a bigger headache.
"Tongtong, did you have a falling out with Ji Rui?"
Although Le Tong had already guessed the general reason why he was so eager to find her, she didn’t expect him to ask so directly.
Le Tong organized her thoughts slightly, "Senior... I resigned. As for a falling out, I don’t think that’s the right term. He and I..."
"Don’t tell me there’s nothing between you two, you might be able to fool others, but you can’t fool me!"
Yang Sheng didn’t wait for Le Tong to finish before cutting her off.
"Senior, there’s really nothing between us!" Le Tong made one last effort to defend.
"Nonsense, do you think sleeping together is the only thing that counts as something?"
Yang Sheng was slightly angry, not knowing that the reality was the opposite of what he imagined. These two had indeed shared a bed, but the things he thought had happened, hadn’t actually happened!
Le Tong was at a loss for words at Yang Sheng’s bluntness.
"Tongtong, could you sit down calmly with him and have a good chat? I can’t keep drinking with him and wasting my time here!"
Hearing Yang Sheng say this, it seemed that in the time she left, Ji Rui often pulled Yang Sheng to drink the time away?
In fact, Yang Sheng was referring to just last night. He had only returned to the country yesterday and, still suffering from jet lag, was dragged out by Ji Rui for a night of drinking; no wonder he had complaints.
But more than the complaints, he was worried about these two friends who were tormenting each other and themselves yet remained oblivious to it.
"Senior, that’s his business, it’s got nothing to do with me..."
A slight sense of satisfaction crept into Le Tong’s heart.
"Alright, I won’t interfere in your messy situation, but you need to tell me honestly, are you really not going back to the Ji Family?"
Le Tong didn’t know whether Yang Sheng asked this for himself or on behalf of Ji Rui.
"No, I won’t go back. I’m now in D Province, co-investing with friends to cultivate some crops on a mountain. I probably won’t return in the short term." The rightful source is novel⚑fire.net
Regardless of whether Yang Sheng wanted to know or if Ji Rui did, Le Tong gave the same answer. Although this once-certain answer had been shaken deeply in her heart these past few days, reason told her she absolutely couldn’t return to R City.
Days ago, it was she who didn’t want to go back, but now, she simply couldn’t!
Yang Sheng was silent for a while, probably considering how to persuade her to return.
But what Yang Sheng said next nearly made Le Tong fall off the sofa.
"Tongtong, I heard from Baobao that he wants you to be his mommy, but you’re unwilling."
So, it turns out Yang Sheng wasn’t pulled in by Ji Rui to persuade her, but by Baobao?
A bitter sensation spread in Le Tong’s throat, and after biting her lip in silence, she said, "Senior, Baobao is just a child. How could he understand that not just anyone can be his mommy! Besides, it’s not his decision to make!"
Regarding Ji Rui’s contract, Le Tong had no intention of telling Yang Sheng.
She didn’t want Yang Sheng to harbour a grudge against Ji Rui on her account.
"Sigh, I really don’t know what to say about you two! Calling you stupid isn’t entirely accurate, but calling you smart, when such a simple matter has to be made so complicated?"
On the other side where Yang Sheng couldn’t see, Le Tong pulled out a bitter smile, "Senior, you wouldn’t understand."
Indeed, even she didn’t understand why these one, two, three, four things... which should have been unrelated, were intricately intertwined in an unresolvable web?
[That’s the third Chapter done, there should be two more Chapters. I know you all are anxious, and Zhu Zi will try his best!]