The phone was picked up after two rings. When the person on the other end said "Hello" lazily in the calmest voice Zhou Yutong had ever heard tonight, she felt a sense of solidity as if her other boot had finally landed on the ground.

She pushed away the hand of the person behind her that was pressing on the door and reopened the door. When he reached out in time to grab her elbow and pull her back, she turned around suddenly -

The force was too great, and the swift and murderous posture was enough to stun Chen Jinli. He had never seen such clear impatience on the face in front of him, which always showed joy and happiness.

This impatience was directed at him.

Chen Jinli's jaw was tense, and he couldn't explain why he felt so nervous at that moment...

I saw a round fingertip pointing at the tip of his nose. The little girl pursed her lips and made a zipper-like motion on her lips. Then, while he was distracted, she turned around and left without hesitation.

As she ran towards the elevator, the person on the phone had already started laughing. The laughter was so annoying that Zhou Yutong wanted to bite her back teeth to pieces...

She was committing a sin. Why did she want to be childhood sweethearts with such a bitch who laughed at everything? "What are you laughing at?"

"I'm laughing at your miserable state." The childhood sweetheart said, "I thought that tonight, after confirming that there was absolutely no moral relationship between us, you would immediately throw yourself into Chen Jinli's arms and cry and ask him to touch your head--"

His calm tone showed that he knew exactly what happened tonight...

Okay.

Save the unnecessary explanation.

Zhou Yutong breathed a sigh of relief.

"You better stop talking so mean."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, I thought you were having sex with someone right now, but I heard you running around in the middle of the night... oh, and you were wearing slippers?"

Li Du distinguished the footsteps coming from this side.

Zhou Yutong completely forgot about her sadness—no matter what kind of sadness it was—in his frivolous rambling.

"I'm in a hurry to go out," she said dryly, "Slippers won't work, so what?"

"No, I heard it's going to rain in Jiangcheng tonight, so you should run slower, the ground is slippery."

His tone didn't sound like he was really worried about her slipping.

It will rain in Jiangcheng, and the words like that sound so familiar.

Zhou Yutong thought that it was Chen Jinli who had said such a thing, and frowned. Now her mind was confused, and she wanted to suspect everyone by grabbing every so-called clue, so she asked in a bad tone, "...Who did you hear say it would rain tonight?"

The other person made a confused nasal sound.

"Idiot? Of course it's the weather forecast."

“…”

This person is really annoying.

Zhou Yutong came to the elevator, pressed the button several times, frowned, stared at the slowly changing numbers, and listened to the sound of the elevator running.

"Stop talking nonsense, Li Du." She called his name in a rough voice, and ordered confidently, "Come pick me up."

It was an order, not a request. There was silence on the other end of the phone for about two seconds.

"It seems your crush doesn't even want to offer you the couch."

Li Du said slowly, "Where are the people?"

The elevator will be here soon.

Zhou Yutong turned around and watched Chen Jinli change into a pair of outdoor slippers and walk towards her——

This bastard probably knew that the elevator couldn't take her away quickly enough, so he was able to calmly change his shoes.

The unhappiness in her heart was growing wildly.

Then he watched the man walk up to him and asked a question that was completely different from the one on the phone: "Where are you going?"

The person on the phone heard the voice, stopped teasing and fell silent.

Zhou Yutong subconsciously wanted to cover the microphone of her phone, but after a few seconds she realized why she was covering it, so she raised her hand unnaturally and then put it down again. She said, "Looking for a friend."

Chen Jinli took off the glasses that only genteel villains wore. His face was expressionless, and his hair fell softly between his eyebrows. He lowered his head and stared at her: "It's too late. Let's talk about it tomorrow. Now go back to bed."

"No." Zhou Yutong refused decisively, "I won't live with you."

"Zhou Yutong——"

"Don't call me, let me go, and don't bother me."

As the elevator got closer, she raised her hand and pulled the collar of her shirt, which she had just buttoned, to the side. "Otherwise I'll tell my mom about this."

The force was so great that the clothes were torn with a sound of fabric breaking, and a button was about to fall off. Chen Jinli saw the ambiguous and fresh red kiss mark and teeth marks on her collarbone.

His Adam's apple rolled, "Threatening me?"

At this moment, the elevator door opened with a "ding" sound, Zhou Yutong stepped in, and pressed the door closing button neatly.

It was not until the elevator door was about to close that the man standing outside said, "Send me a WeChat message when you get to your friend's house." His tone was as normal as any parent in the world who would remind their children to be safe.

It wasn't as if she had jumped up from his sofa and ran away in just her underwear, but was just going out for a late-night snack with friends at this time of day.

The moment the elevator door closed, Zhou Yutong heard her own heavy breathing in the elevator.

The toes stuffed in her slippers were already frozen cold. In the closed elevator door, she saw her own reflection, with messy hair, disheveled clothes, and panting...

Like a mad lioness.

She looked away unable to bear it and picked up the phone again. The call time was still running and the person on the other end of the line was surprisingly patient and didn't hang up.

The cold phone was put to her ear again. For some reason, Zhou Yutong always felt as if she could hear the gentle breathing of the person on the other end of the phone.

He is listening.

This confidence is unfounded.

Just like she knew he would answer before she dialed the number, she blindly believed that he was listening.

"Li Du," she called his name for the second time, "Did you hear me? I have nowhere to go, do you want to come?"

"…Didn't I ask you where you are?"

Zhou Yutong sent him an address as she stepped out of the elevator.

A minute later, Li Du sent Zhou Yutong a message for a McDonald's that was only 500 meters away from her, asking her to sit inside and wait.

The city center is not particularly deserted at this time of night, but it is particularly cold tonight and it may turn into rain after snowing, so there are not many people on the streets.

Zhou Yutong walked into McDonald's in the cold wind, ordered a random set meal, and sat down next to the window, ignoring the strange looks from other people in the store when they saw her feet wearing only slippers.

"How long will it take you?"

There was the roar of some brand of sports car engine coming from the other end of the line.

"The navigation said about two hours."

The "click" sound was the sound of the seat belt being buckled. "Now stop bothering me and asking so many questions. I may be able to shorten the time to an hour and a half."

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Yutong was still a little dazed.

For example, including the property Xu Hui bought for her and her various friends, she has no less than ten places to go in Jiangcheng... In this case, why would she call someone whose home is not in Jiangcheng at all?

She couldn't figure it out.

After a minute, he scratched his head and gave up thinking.

Zhou Yutong spent an hour and a half replying to everyone who asked her about her situation on WeChat. Those people might have been gossiping or were truly worried, but she replied to them all equally.

During this period, Gou An took up about half an hour of her time.

Because Miss Gou insisted on starting the video, she was relieved to see her dressed properly and sitting in McDonald's.

"Who's going to pick you up?"

"Li Du."

The expression on the face of the person in the video was blank for a few seconds, as if it was difficult to match this name with a certain person. She narrowed her eyes slightly in suspicion, "Why do you want to find someone who is not in Jiangcheng to save you?"

"Looking for someone in Jiangcheng means that Uncle Jiaobutt can find out my whereabouts with just a flick of his finger," Zhou Yutong said, "What's the difference between him knowing and Chen Jinli knowing? I don't want to open my eyes tomorrow morning and see Chen Jinli sitting at the head of my bed, asking me what I want for breakfast as if nothing happened."

Gou An thought about the scene and felt it made a lot of sense. He even wanted to vent his anger on He Jinxing and sent him a WeChat message on the spot: I wish I could sew your mouth shut.

The person on the other end wasn't asleep, and gave her a question mark in a very puzzled manner.

Gou An ignored him and praised Zhou Yutong: "That's okay, well done."

"You seem very worried about me being with Chen Jinli."

"Your psychological defenses have completely collapsed tonight. I'm afraid you'll do something outrageous." Gou An paused, "I said I'd come to find you."

"Didn't Uncle Butt forbid you to go out?"

"He can't stop me." Gou An said without hesitation, "He and my parents wouldn't let me go. They thought I shouldn't go and cause trouble. Maybe they thought anyone could go except me, because if I went, I might help you tear down the Zhou family, and then bring the bill to them to help pay the compensation."

The more you talk, the more outrageous it gets.

Zhou Yutong laughed along, then felt sad again. She suddenly remembered that Gou An and He Jinxing were almost eight years apart in age. But from the tone of her voice, it seemed that there wasn't much of a communication problem between the two...

Unlike her and Chen Jinli, there seemed to be a deep abyss between them.

The two chatted for a while. Zhou Yutong hadn't eaten at night, so she finished a whole burger.

Then I heard someone knocking on the glass next to me.

She turned her head and saw a boy of the same age wearing jeans and a down jacket, standing outside with his hands stuffed in the pockets of the down jacket.

White steam came out from his slightly parted thin lips, then he pursed his lips, raised his knife-like eyebrows, and looked at her expressionlessly through the glass.

Three seconds later, he nodded his chin behind him.

There was a black Pagani parked behind him. It was hard to imagine someone driving a car that only had speed but no comfort at high speeds.

Zhou Yutong looked at the time on her phone, exactly one and a half hours.

She hung up the video with Gou An, crumpled up the hamburger wrapper in her hand and threw it into the plate, then stuffed the garbage from the plate into the trash can in the store.

When I opened the door of McDonald's, I saw Li Du had turned back to the car and was leaning against the door.

A few young girls in their twenties came out of the nightclub next door, giggling and surrounding him to ask for his WeChat ID, but he smiled and refused: "Girls, I'm in my third year of high school."

The 1.85-meter-tall high school boy driving a Pagani made the sisters look at each other in bewilderment. On one hand, they thought that he really wanted WeChat even more, and on the other hand, they felt morally condemned in their hearts.

Before they had time to struggle, Zhou Yutong arrived. Li Du opened the car door for her, pushed her in, and got in himself.

Zhou Yutong was sitting in the passenger seat and calmly hung up the fifth call from Chen Jinli that night.

Li Du glanced at her phone screen and clearly saw who had hung up the call. He then lowered the window and politely waved goodbye to the sisters standing outside the car.

Zhou Yutong returned to the door of the five-star hotel again.

The hotel lobby is still magnificent.

The doorman on duty had obviously never seen a crazy woman in slippers climbing down from a Bentley on a freezing night with the temperature several degrees below zero, and then climbing down from a Pagani two and a half hours later. He was stunned for a moment and thought he was sleepwalking.

The hotel receptionist was also at a similar loss when she heard Li Du remind her that “rain is rain that falls”.

Ten minutes later, Li Du came back with two room cards. He handed one of them to Zhou Yutong. He yawned, tears of irrationality welling up in the corners of his eyes.

"Are you going to school tomorrow?" Zhou Yutong asked.

"Is it possible to be late if I get up at five in the morning, leave home at six, and drive two hours on the highway back home?" Li Du smiled as if she had asked an idiotic question, "I skipped class."

"I'll skip the class too." Zhou Yutong muttered, "There will definitely be a lot of people asking me questions when I go to school."

There are no more than ten people in this world who wish you the best.

But those who hope you are not well——

Even strangers on the street may feel better and eat an extra bowl of rice at noon because of your bad luck, especially when they witness the so-called noble class falling down in class.

"Jiangcheng can no longer accommodate you?" Li Du asked half-dazedly, "Are you sure?"

“…”

Shouldn’t we comfort people at this time?

"Then do you want to come back to Haicheng with me?" Li Du asked again, "No one knows you there, you can start over—"

"…My parents are unknown now, not a wanted criminal."

Li Du said "Oh" slowly, and it was hard to tell whether he was disappointed that she would not go back to Haicheng with him.

When they arrived at the elevator, they found that the rooms were even on different floors, and different floors required different elevators. They didn't even have basic courtesy like saying "good night" and turned around and prepared to go their separate ways.

While Zhou Yutong was waiting for the elevator, her cell phone rang for the sixth time. Professor Chen exerted all his willpower to try to call her cell phone until it ran out of battery.

Zhou Yutong was about to hang up for the sixth time when her phone was snatched away from behind. The shadow cast by the overdeveloped high school boy's tall figure completely enveloped her. He held her iPhone mini like a toy, swiped open her phone awkwardly but quickly, and before she could stop him, he put it to her ear and said "Hello".

Zhou Yutong's pupils trembled, and she reached out to grab it, but the tall man just raised his chin slightly like an adult being harassed by a cat's claws, and dodged her attack——

When the phone fell silent due to the sudden call and the male voice, Li Du grabbed Zhou Yutong's waist and held her in his arms.

It has nothing to do with ambiguity, I just feel annoyed by her moving around.

However, the tone of his voice was not like that.

"Hey, please don't call me again." Li Du said to the other end of the phone, "My sister promised me to open three more bottles of wine, so that Tony will agree to let me go out with her tonight and give her a warm home."

Zhou Yutong: “…”

Before the other party could say anything, Li Du quickly hung up the phone, blocked the number, locked the screen, and stuffed the phone back into her pocket.

Zhou Yutong: "...Tony is usually a barber."

Li Du: "Oh, next time just call me daddy-san."

(End of this chapter)