Chapter 59
The ringing soon stopped. Shigure secretly breathed a sigh of relief, nodded, and answered Wayne's question: "Yes, I am now adopted by Mr. Rain."
"Wayne, before, I..."
Shi Yu was slightly stunned for a moment, then suddenly looked up at the boy and asked, "Before... I couldn't contact you, Wayne. Are you and Xia Feng in the family now?"
Shi Yu hadn't contacted Wayne for a long time. Now that she was finally able to talk to him again, she should tell him what had happened recently... However, Shi Yu was very concerned about the injuries on the boy's arms, which prevented her from concentrating on reminiscing about the past with Wayne.
She seemed to suddenly realize that something was wrong from the other party's lack of contact these days, and Xia Feng's constant silence whenever she mentioned Wayne to him...
Did he go to closed training? But there was something that Xia Feng couldn't tell her.
Shi Yu was a little confused by this.
Wayne's green eyes silently reflected Shi Yu's serious and somewhat puzzled expression as she slightly raised her head. Unlike during the training camp, her expression was bright, and her long hair and dress were very neat. When she spoke to him, the cautiousness in the girl's expression and the fear hidden in her eyes disappeared completely.
She was well taken care of by Rain and seemed to have adapted to her current life.
Wayne looked down at her, his bold and unruly brows becoming slightly hard as he pondered. The young man gloomily recalled Leonard's warning - since Rain Davis had certain abilities, the methods of those people in the family could not be used on her for the time being.
Not hearing Wayne's voice, Shi Yu couldn't help but call out in confusion, "Wayne?" The boy narrowed his green eyes and said briefly, "He's not here."
"Huh? Then..." Shi Yu wanted to ask.
"Just think of me as going out for training." Wayne was too lazy to discuss this with the girl. He glanced at her and silently moved his wrist. "Is Rein usually home? Besides him, who else is there?"
Shi Yu didn't expect Wayne to ask this out of the blue. She thought for a moment before answering truthfully, "Mr. Rain is very busy at work... He rarely spends time at home. Usually, I'm the only one at home besides him."
The young man frowned slightly, and although he still had no expression, Shi Yu inexplicably felt that when he talked about being alone with Raine, the atmosphere seemed a little wrong.
"Well, there are robots too..."
She pursed her lips, looked at Wayne awkwardly, and added softly.
"Pay attention to the situation around you," the young man said in a hoarse voice. He didn't say much, but lowered his emerald eyes slightly, paused, and continued, "If you find anything, tell Lei Yin to solve it immediately, and then let Xia Feng..."
Wayne hadn't finished his words when his illusory figure shook twice again, and then the tablet suddenly rang with a ring tone that made Shi Yu stiffen all over.
The young man raised his eyelids slightly, and his cold, scrutinizing gaze made Shi Yu shrink his shoulders belatedly, not daring to look at the bed with the flat sheet on it for another second.
"Who's calling?"
Wayne's voice was a little hoarse. He looked at Shi Yu, raised his eyebrows, and asked again.
...Shi Yu didn't know how to tell Wayne. Maybe he didn't believe it when he explained to him that it was a ringtone, but he just didn't want to waste time on it.
However, Wayne and Xiao's relationship wasn't good during the training camp, and the same was true for Loren. Shi Yu suddenly thought, while struggling to think, if it was Xia Feng who called her at this time, then she wouldn't have to be so awkward and nervous...
Shi Yu's eyes wandered, then he lowered his head and whispered, "Maybe... a classmate from the nursing school."
I'm sorry, Ed—
Shi Yu silently apologized guiltily to the "classmate" who was used as a shield, but she did not wait for Wayne's reply.
Because the room was too quiet, she carefully raised her head and found that Wayne's holographic projection had disappeared.
Shi Yu didn't make any moves, which could only mean that Wayne had unilaterally interrupted the call...
…
"We're sorry, your call time has been used up."
Shigure was stunned for a moment, then extremely confused, wondering, "Could Wayne be angry with her because of this call, so he hung up?" The person in charge, who had just kept a certain distance from Wayne during the call, stepped forward apologetically and explained to the boy with a sinister look standing in front of the automatically turned-off device, "A call can only last ten minutes, this..."
Wayne curled his lips, sneered, and asked, "Is this Leonard's restriction?"
"Yes." The person in charge said helplessly, "Please understand."
"If you want to extend the call time, you can deliver enough ore at once to make multiple calls," the person in charge lowered his head, trying his best to avoid Wayne's gaze, and added, "In this case, we can also give you a small discount..."
Wayne suddenly ended the call. Shi Yu was stunned and sat in the room for a while.
When the tablet's ringtone rang for the third time, Shi Yu finally came to his senses and answered the call with a somewhat depressed mood.
"Good evening, Shigure," Xiao's gentle voice, tinged with a smile, came, and she even jokingly complained, "It's so hard to call you. I heard Loren was like this before. Are you busy tonight?"
"I'm not busy..." Shigure replied hesitantly, "I just had something happen."
"Um, what?"
Things weren't going well between Wayne, Xiao, and Loren, she reminded herself silently.
So Shi Yu said, "...I'm making a holographic call to my classmates in the nursing home, uh! My classmates!"
As soon as Wayne hung up the phone, Shi Yu, who was a little depressed, chatted with Xiao and Loren for a long time without realizing it, and during the conversation, he also asked Loren some math problems.
——Rain actually didn't arrange any math or science courses for her, so she didn't need to study anymore, but the promise she made to Ed and her own determination made her never give up...even though Shi Yu was getting worse at math.
Shi Yu hung up the phone with Loren and Xiao at half past nine. By then, her mood had already adjusted and it was already her usual bedtime, so she couldn't help feeling a little sleepy.
However, when Shi Yu packed up his things and prepared to go wash up, the tablet rang again.
Shi Yu opened his eyes wide, and his sleepiness was instantly scared away.
Who would call at this time?!
Shi Yu took a deep breath and waited for the tablet to ring twice with exhaustion before slowly picking up the tablet and answering the call.
"Shigure," Ed's calm voice echoed beside his ears, the faint sound of pages shuffling by. "I have an experiment tomorrow, so I can't go through the scheduled tutoring. So, I'll go over your homework today and see if you have any mistakes. You can correct them first."
"As for moving the tutoring to Friday night, is that okay?"
After a moment of silence, Shi Yu rubbed his stiff cheeks and said weakly, "Yes, yes..."
She had just asked Loren questions about her homework, and she wasn't worried about spending too long comparing answers with Ed, but—
...I'm so tired.
This mental exhaustion reached its peak when Shi Yu finally checked the answers with Ed and was about to happily hang up the phone and go to sleep without caring about anything else - but Ed suddenly mentioned lightly: "By the way, I didn't get through to you just now, you were busy."
The young man asked casually, "Who were you communicating with just now... could you tell me?"
Shi Yu's eyes were dull, and he said almost subconsciously: "Just now, I was playing holographic games with my friends in the nursing home."
"...What?" On the other end of the call, the "friend" from the nursing home frowned. "Susu, or Natasha?"
Shi Yu: “…”
……ah.
Shi Yu finally realized that because she had been using Ed as an excuse, she seemed to have accidentally been perfunctory towards the real person.
A few minutes later, as soon as he hung up the call with Ed, Shi Yu quickly went to wash up, packed his things, and then got into bed. The series of actions were smooth and flowing. Shi Yu didn't think that there would be any day that he would be more efficient than today.
Before going to bed, Shi Yu looked at her tablet again out of concern. The address book was quiet. No one sent her messages or called her, so she lay down with peace of mind.
It was almost eleven o'clock. Shi Yu closed his eyes and happily prepared to fall asleep...
——The moment before.
The familiar ringtone rang in her ears again.
...Shi Yu really did like this ringtone music. However, when Shi Yu heard this song now, she just felt exhausted. She didn't understand why someone would not sleep and call her in the middle of the night.
Shi Yu, who was so sleepy that he could hardly open his eyes, covered his head with the quilt and tried to avoid it for a while. Finally, he slowly stretched out his arm to grope for the tablet on the bedside and answered the call.
——It’s the summer breeze.
"Xia Feng...what's wrong?"
Shi Yu covered his mouth and yawned vaguely.
Although I was expecting Xia Feng to call and help me out when I was on the phone with Wayne, I never thought she would call at this time...
Perhaps because he noticed the tiredness in Shi Yu's voice, Xia Feng apologized to her calmly and said, "Wayne has a daily limit on the time he can make calls, so today, he didn't suddenly and deliberately hang up on you."
So the time is up? Turns out Wayne isn't angry...
"I often don't receive your communications, and this is the only time I have time." Xia Feng paused, then said again, "I'm sorry."
Shi Yu was stunned for a moment, then noticed the time and felt a little embarrassed: "Thank you, Xia Feng, it's okay."
It's already past eleven o'clock, and Xia Feng is still thinking about this matter... It is Shi Yu who should apologize to her for troubling Xia Feng so much.
——Although they had agreed to call each other every day, because of Xia Feng's training, they didn't talk that often.
"Wayne can't talk to me for a long time, right?" Shi Yu thought for a moment and asked doubtfully, and got Xia Feng's confirmation, "Yes, people outside the family can't, but he can talk to people in Clement at any time."
Ah, so that’s how it is, Shigure thought.
So Xia Feng knew very clearly about Wayne's situation. She was worried that she would misunderstand, so she came to explain.
Shi Yu thought about this in a daze, then covered his mouth sleepily again, and said to Xia Feng in a vague voice, as if with a slight smile: "Thank you, Xia Feng, we have been..."
Xia Feng, wearing a black training suit and with his hair soaked with sweat, put a dry towel around his neck and listened to the voice on the phone with a calm expression.
"I haven't had a good conversation these past few days..."
Shi Yu was too sleepy, and his nasal words sounded like a lazy cat acting coquettishly to Alpha's ears.
"So next time..." she said, "when you have time, I want to hear what's happened around you recently."
Shi Yu has mentioned Wayne to Xia Feng too many times, especially during the time when she lost contact with Wayne. She was worried and always wanted to find out about his recent situation from Xia Feng.
It was during this phone call tonight that Shi Yu began to realize that his actions of mentioning Wayne to Xia Feng from time to time during the call seemed to have neglected Xia Feng himself.
They were always talking about Wayne and had unconsciously stopped discussing their own affairs, which made Shigure feel a little guilty when he noticed something.
"Wayne, it's inconvenient for me to contact you," Xia Feng said after a pause, "It's better for me to convey some things to you so that you don't think too much and get sad."
Alpha spoke the second half of the sentence in a whisper. Her voice was already low, so Shi Yu didn't hear a word. She squinted her eyes, as if she would fall asleep at the next moment.
"I want to hear you talk about your story..." She repeated in a vague voice, "You don't have to care so much about Wayne and me. It's okay, Xia Feng."
“…Shigure.”
"Um?"
Shigure's answer was very reluctant.
Xia Feng was silent for a moment.
The young Alpha closed her eyes, then raised them slightly and looked around the now quiet and deserted training ground.
The nursing home seemed to be just as quiet that day. She gently called her "Xia Feng" with a smile, and her voice was like the mist dispersed under the moonlight. Xia Feng took her running, and she had never felt her warmth so clearly.
...Shi Yu once said that she was very happy when they were together. Thinking of this, Xia Feng couldn't help but calmly recall more. So, did she make such a choice because she would be happier if she stayed with Wayne?
The unfamiliar feelings in her heart made Xia Feng feel confused. She didn't care about many people, but the memory of that day always remained in her mind. Xia Feng still remembered the scene of Shi Yu jumping from the high platform without hesitation, and her back with her white dress spread out looked like a delicate butterfly.
But even though he was troubled by this, Xia Feng didn't have time to sort out his emotions.
Training, fighting, and various trainings occupied all her energy. When she could occasionally talk to Shi Yu, she would instinctively meet the other party's requests and take care of her emotions - she did not tell Shi Yu about Wayne because she considered that Wayne's motivation for going to the desolate planet would make her worry.
Xia Feng gradually stopped caring about Shi Yu's choice that day, even though her Alpha nature urged her to fight with others. But Shi Yu would always smile at her and talk to her about various topics, which always calmed Xia Feng down.
If Shigure could always be like this, then Xiafeng would have nothing to reject even if he repeatedly talked to her about Wayne and the other Alpha.
She just wanted to...
Xia Feng waited quietly for a while, and when the sound of the wind died down, the girl Alpha lowered her eyes and spoke softly.
"Shigure," she said, "I want to make you happy."
The call was not disconnected, but what responded to Xia Feng was the girl's even and steady breathing.
Shi Yu fell asleep.
The author has something to say:
I was so sleepy 5555. I started reading until 3 or 4 in the morning before I started writing.
So what if there are many people! My love is shared equally among everyone (not x)
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