Seeing Ye Ning hang up the phone so coldly, Li Churan was unwilling to give up and dialed again, only to be told that the number she had dialed was busy.
Ye Ning, are you really this heartless? Or is Xiao Jingchen really better than me?
Of course, if Ye Ning could hear Li Churan's inner thoughts, she would definitely retort without hesitation: "That's right, Xiao Jingchen is better than you, ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times, ten thousand times better than you."
Li Churan slumped to the ground in despair.
He understood Ye Ning. Ye Ning seemed gentle, but deep down she was an extremely stubborn person, and it was very difficult to change her mind once she made up her mind.
Just as she stubbornly loved Li Churan in her past life, she resolutely threw herself into Xiao Jingchen's arms in this life.
Ye Ning was unwilling to leave with him unless he used force to knock her unconscious; otherwise, she might leave with him.
But now, he has no power to forcibly take Ye Ning away.
He sat there from afternoon until dark, until Shangguan Rong knocked on the door to call him for dinner, at which point he finally made a decision.
"Chu Ran, have an egg!" Tonight's dinner is instant noodles with a fried egg.
Normally, they'd be lucky to have instant noodles, but today is a special case. They've finally gotten a chance to escape this quagmire, so they should celebrate properly.
"Mom! There's still some time before we leave! Let's eat sparingly for now!" Li Churan used chopsticks to divide the egg in half and gave it to Shangguan Rong.
"No, no, Chu Ran, you eat! You're a man, you should eat more. Mom's old and frail, it'll be fine." Shangguan Rong placed the egg into Li Chu Ran's bowl.
"By the way! Chu Ran, when will the rescue team be able to come and pick us up?" Shangguan Rong asked expectantly.
"I don't know the exact time, it will probably take another fourteen or fifteen days! We'll be notified then! Mom! How long will our food last?" Wu Zhongshi didn't tell him the specific time, only that he would be notified later.
"About three weeks!" Shangguan Rong estimated.
"Eat sparingly these days, just in case the plans change!" Li Churan is always cautious and never puts all her eggs in one basket.
"Okay! I understand!" Shangguan Rong nodded.
While the mother and son were having a cozy meal, Lin Mengru was eavesdropping on their conversation through the crack in the door.
Yes, she was still alive, though she was skin and bones from hunger, she was still barely clinging to life.
During this period, she completely cut off contact with his top supporters. It wasn't that she didn't want to contact them, but that she couldn't reach them at all after the internet was cut off.
She lived each day amidst Shangguan Rong's disdain and Li Churan's indifference, and was also occasionally given to various men by that venomous woman Shangguan Rong in exchange for a meager amount of food.
If it weren't for this feature, she probably would have been dead long ago!
But she survived! That's already a success!
"A shelter? H country, in half a month!" Lin Mengru kept muttering these words.
A shelter has been set up in country H, and a rescue team will arrive in half a month.
Judging from what the mother and son were saying, they should have already qualified to enter the shelter, and if nothing unexpected happens, she should be excluded.
No, she had to find a way to go there. She'd had enough of this godforsaken place; if she stayed any longer, she'd die sooner or later.
But that old woman Shangguan Rong will definitely try to stop her, so she has to think of a way.
Lin Mengru sat blankly on the ground, thinking of a solution. That's right, there was no bed left in her room. Her bed had been burned down by Shangguan Rong and the others as a heater.
Just then, the door to her room was suddenly pushed open.
"Chu Ran, is that you?" No wonder Li Chu Ran came specifically to inform her that she was going to take her to the shelter.
The moment she turned around, she felt a bucket of cold water being poured over her heart; it wasn't Li Churan.
Shangguan Rong carried a bowl into the room.
Shangguan Rong snorted coldly and put the bowl on the floor. "Eat! You useless piece of trash! You can't do anything but waste food!"
Lin Mengru had long since gotten used to her sarcastic remarks, so she scrambled over and picked up the bowl.
Tonight's food was a third more than usual. Shangguan Rong was incredibly kind. Maybe he was in a good mood, or maybe it was a little compensation for not taking Lin Mengru with him.
Shangguan Rong coldly watched Lin Mengru frantically eating with her hands, and snorted inwardly.
Eat up, eat up! We don't have many more meals like this anyway!
After she and Chu Ran leave, Lin Mengru will probably only starve to death.
Even though she hated Lin Mengru in her heart, at this moment, she couldn't help but feel a surge of compassion.
Let Lin Mengru have a good meal!
The two women in the room, one standing and one sitting, both harbored ulterior motives.
On Li Churan's side, after being rejected by Ye Ning, he finally made a decision.
Although Ye Ning had decided not to go, he couldn't let the spot he had secured go to waste. Who should he take with him? Ideally, someone who would obey his orders.
That's right! You can take him with you.
Li Churan dialed a phone number.
"Hello! Mr. Li, you wanted to see me!" The person who answered the phone was Fang Yan.
He was originally Li Churan's confidant.
After the apocalypse, under Li Churan's repeated guidance and command, he has survived to this day and can be said to admire Li Churan to the point of prostration.
"Fang Yan, did you know that a refuge has been built in H country?" Li Churan asked directly.
"Of course I know! The whole of City A is talking about it! But judging from the information they've released, I doubt many people can actually go to the shelters! There are so many survivors in City A, how could everyone possibly get into a shelter!"
"Fang Yan, I have one spot available to enter the shelter. There's only one, and I'd like to take you there. I wonder if you'd be willing!"
"Really? Mr. Li, are you serious? You're going to take me there?" Fang Yan felt like a pie had fallen from the sky and landed right on his head.
"Yes, it's true! Are you willing?" Li Churan asked, enunciating each word clearly.
"Yes, yes, of course I'm willing! Mr. Li, are you serious? Am I dreaming?"
"Of course! Do I look like someone who's joking with you? You should pack your things these next few days! I'll let you know the exact location later!" Li Churan hung up the phone.
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