"..." Gu Rongqi was speechless for a moment, not expecting her to come up with this reason, before slowly replying, "Then next time I'll try to send more messages so that my message is at the top."
"..." There's no need to go to such lengths. Cheng Qicai didn't want to continue the topic of sending messages, so she changed the subject, "When will you be back?"
"It might take a while longer. My grandfather's recovery from his last surgery wasn't very good." Gu Rongqi paused, then said in a low voice, "I'm sorry!"
These words made her sound like she was urging him, so she said a little awkwardly, "There's nothing to apologize for. Your grandfather is sick, so it's only natural for you, as his grandson, to take care of him! I was just asking casually."
"I want to say that I'm very sorry for breaking my promise to celebrate my birthday with you, and I'm also very sorry for leaving you for so long after I promised to pursue you..." Gu Rongqi's apologetic voice sounded very forlorn.
Cheng Qicai's nose tingled with a little soreness. She always felt that Gu Rongqi liked to use this tone when talking about these things, trying to gain her sympathy.
But I was genuinely touched. "No, the choice to pursue this was entirely in your hands..."
Gu Rongqi quickly denied this, saying, "No, no matter what kind of power it is, between you and me, you are the one in control."
"Then I'll take the lead, and I won't let you chase. Why are you still chasing?" Cheng Qicai muttered softly.
The environment around Gu Rongqi was extremely quiet, so it was easy for him to hear Cheng Qicai's words clearly.
But he just smiled and didn't respond to Cheng Qicai's words.
Looking at the messages popping up on her phone, Cheng Qicai told him, "My friends are messaging me, so I'll have to talk to you later."
After hanging up the phone with Gu Rongqi, she saw messages tagging her constantly popping up in her friends' group chat.
She clicked in and responded to each message. It would have been better if she hadn't responded; otherwise, she'd have been bombarded with questions about where she'd been, whether something was going on, and so on…
Wu Jieyu reacted the most strongly. She firmly stated in the group that something must be wrong, as she had called earlier but the line was always busy.
Cheng Qicai looked at the icon at the top of her phone and saw that there were indeed missed calls from Wu Jieyu.
Cheng Qicai gave a evasive reply, saying she was just on the phone with her sister. Wu Jieyu said she sent a fake meme...
She wasn't going to reply; no matter what she said, they wouldn't believe her—they were all very gossipy.
Moreover, she strongly suspected that Wu Jieyu was stirring up trouble in the group as revenge for what she had said about her in the group last year.
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