Chapter 43 It's all over, it's a misunderstanding!
“Mom is going to visit an old classmate these few days. Don’t worry, Mom will keep an eye out for suitable candidates for you.” Ms. Xu closed the lid of the food container. “Don’t eat this either, it’s a waste.”
"Just throw it away." Xu Songning snatched the box from Ms. Xu's hand and got out of the car to find a trash can.
After navigating around several cars, I found a trash can by a wall and saw two familiar strangers next to it. We had just met, and it was hard to forget them.
"Mom, give me your phone." Qin Han, sitting in her wheelchair, reached out to the middle-aged woman pushing it from behind.
She handed him the phone, and Qin Han opened Xiang Yun's chat window and deleted all his contact information. "Don't contact him anymore. Don't do anything unnecessary, okay, Mom?"
"Okay, Mom will listen to you, let's go home." The middle-aged woman sighed.
The woman in the wheelchair turned her head; she was slender and pure—this was the most immediate impression Xu Songning had of her.
After deleting the contacts, Qin Han's gaze met Xu Songning's, who was looking her up and down. She nodded in a friendly manner, treating her as a stranger, but Xu Songning was so beautiful that Qin Han couldn't help but take a second look.
"It's you?" Qin Han's mother was surprised. She also had a deep impression of Xu Songning because she had lied to her to satisfy her vanity.
"Mom, you two know each other?" Qin Han was even more surprised.
"I met her once during a check-up at the hospital," Qin Han's mother said with an awkward laugh.
Xu Songning looked at Qin Han's legs, "Are you sick?"
"Yes, but I'm all better now. I accidentally broke my leg, but I can stand up now." Qin Han smiled and gestured for her mother to help her. With her mother's support, she tried to stand up, but her legs felt weak and she was unsteady on her feet.
She pinched the flesh on her thigh and smiled generously, "I haven't walked in so long, I'm not used to it."
"Why didn't your boyfriend give you a ride?" Xu Songning's voice was extremely cold. She looked around but couldn't see Xiang Yun's car.
She herself didn't realize that when talking about Xiang Yun, she unusually lost her composure.
"Boyfriend?" Qin Han glanced at her mother, who avoided her gaze, looking away and muttering, "I just said it offhand..."
"I don't have a boyfriend. Is that what my mom said? She never talks nonsense. Women, even if they have boyfriends, they're probably too busy to help at all. They still have to rely on themselves." Qin Han laughed.
"Not your boyfriend? The man in the white casual clothes standing next to you, isn't he?" Xu Songning's eyes widened.
Qin Han understood and exclaimed, "Oh, so you saw it back then? It really wasn't him. He was just a regular friend saying goodbye. I was just teasing him. I didn't expect you all to misunderstand."
May that scumbag be struck by lightning.
The huge words were blasted into dust in her mind.
Xiang Yun is not a scumbag.
She misunderstood.
She deleted all the chat boxes, leaving no chance to salvage the situation.
"Let's go, let's go," Qin Han's mother urged. Qin Han waved goodbye to Xu Songning.
Xu Songning watched the two leave, feeling that he had made a huge blunder, and returned to his car dejectedly.
"Goodness, why do you feel even worse than before?" Ms. Xu leaned over and touched her forehead.
"I think I misunderstood Xiang Yun. That's not his girlfriend. We ran into her mother, and she was just making things up." Xu Songning covered her forehead. Her mother's illness hadn't relapsed, which should have been a happy thing, but this misunderstanding ruined her mood.
"and you……"
"I deleted the person. Is it believable that I accidentally deleted them?" Xu Songning turned her head to look at her mother.
Ms. Xu: "..."
"I even sent a message calling him a scumbag and wishing him to be struck by lightning. What... what am I saying?" Xu Songning covered her face, her cheeks burning, as if she couldn't explain herself no matter what.
"Goodness, why don't you just add him back and explain?" Ms. Xu suggested.
Xu Songning shook her head, stubbornly saying, "Wouldn't that be admitting that I like him first? I scolded him and deleted him because I was jealous."
"But in relationships, it's not about who gives in first and loses. Why treat relationships like a tug-of-war? Isn't it a relay race? You have to give it your all to reach the finish line. If someone gives up halfway, there's no chance to start over." Ms. Xu, speaking from experience, comforted her. Despite her own failed marriage, she didn't believe that the feelings and emotions she had during their passionate courtship were fake.
"Then I'll go find him and talk things out face to face." Xu Songning had made up his mind, and immediately drove home.
But Xiang Yun wasn't home, and the men's shoes by the door were gone.
Ms. Xu comforted her, "He might have a flight scheduled for today. We can just wait for him to come back. It's a short domestic flight, it'll be quick, won't it?"
That's what they said, but after this mishap, Xu Songning was restless and paced back and forth in the room.
She messaged Lu Xiaomeng privately, "Do you have Xiang Yun's contact information? WeChat or phone number?"
Lu Xiaomeng: ?
Lu Xiaomeng: Sister Xu, if I remember correctly, you two have been friends for a long time.
Xu Songning: ...I got so excited that I deleted him.
Lu Xiaomeng: What happened?! Sister Xu, this isn't like you at all! Last time you deleted a jerk!
Xu Songning: Give me your contact information first.
Lu Xiaomeng: Tell me what you need first, then I'll give it to you.
Xu Songning: ...I accompanied my mother to her follow-up appointment today. At the hospital, I saw him behaving intimately with a woman. The woman's mother said Xiang Yun was her daughter's boyfriend, so I misunderstood.
Lu Xiaomeng: You're doomed, Sister Xu!
Xu Songning: ?
Lu Xiaomeng: You've fallen for him. Otherwise, you have no way of explaining why you deleted him. I'm going to tell Sister Zhou!
Xu Songning: Contact Information
Lu Xiaomeng: No, I'm not lying to you, I really don't have it. You know Xiang Yun, he's really reserved when he goes out, he basically doesn't give out his contact information to anyone else, so I have no reason to ask for it. But I have Gu Xing's WeChat, I'll ask him for it.
Xu Songning: No way! Forget it, I'll wait for him to get off work.
If Lu Xiaomeng goes to Gu Xing, wouldn't another person know about this embarrassing incident? Besides, Gu Xing seems to be a gossipy person as well.
After hastily ending her chat with Lu Xiaomeng, Xu Songning lay on the bed, feeling increasingly sleepy, and eventually fell asleep while still holding her phone.
It was already evening when Ms. Xu knocked on the door.
The bedroom door was not closed. Ms. Xu gently pushed it open, and a faint light shone in. Xu Songning opened her eyes, then closed them again, then opened them again, and rubbed her eyes.
Still grumpy from being woken up, Xu Songning spoke in a slurred voice, "Mom, what time is it?"
"Sweetie, are you sleepy today? Do you want to sleep a little longer? It's 7:30 now." Ms. Xu leaned against the door, and warm light shone through her from behind, enveloping her in a soft and cozy atmosphere.
Xu Songning recalled the days when she was little, following her mother around everywhere. Her mother was very busy with work, but when she came home, the first thing she would do was give her a warm hug. The most unforgettable scent from Xu Songning's childhood was the fragrance of her mother when she hugged her.
She has never smelled her mother's scent since childhood. Perhaps it is because she has grown up and lost the ability to smell her mother's scent.
Xu Songning reached out her hand to the backlit figure and whispered sweetly, "Mom, hug me."
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