Shen Xingzhi looked at her haggard face in the mirror and showed a look of horror.
But she was so focused on getting ready in the middle of the night that she forgot to bring her makeup. How could she face Yu Wenhao looking like this?
"Rong Yan, my face... Ah! Help!..." Shen Xingzhi wailed.
Rong Yan breathed a sigh of relief: "Shen Xingzhi, who are you trying to scare to death? We can just go out and buy it in a bit, right?"
Shen Xingzhi slowly turned around: "So early, which shops are open?"
"It will be late when we get to Yu Wenhao's house. We can just pay for it when we see him. Besides, we might not even be there when we get there. We might have to wait."
"This is the only way." Shen Xingzhi said, her head hanging low.
"Send Yu Wenhao a message first to ask if he's home," Rong Yan reminded her best friend.
Shen Xingzhi's chat window with her boyfriend had stopped a day earlier. She asked Yu Wenhao when he would return to Tiancheng, and after Yu Wenhao replied that he wasn't sure, she didn't say anything more.
She was clearly angry, but Yu Wenhao didn't even send a message to coax her.
Shen Xingzhi braced herself and sent a message.
Yu Wenhao accompanied his mother to the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital for a check-up; this was their fourth hospital visit in half a month.
The examination cost a lot, but no problems were found. However, my mother kept saying that she felt unwell.
Yu Wenhao wondered if the county hospital was too small and if it would be the same in the city. His mother said that the city hospitals in small towns were about the same as the clinics in big cities, so he should go to a big city to see a doctor.
He had some doubts about his mother, but he was also afraid that if she really was sick, many diseases could not be detected at first.
The man was very anxious lately, his leave from work was extended again and again, and Shen Xingzhi was also angry with him.
The man who was accompanying his mother in line received a message from Shen Xingzhi. He replied, "At the hospital."
I'm sick.
No, I'm accompanying my mom for her checkup.
Upon hearing that she was accompanying Yu's mother, Shen Xingzhi didn't ask about her situation, but instead asked Yu Wenhao when he would be free to meet her.
The man's mouth dropped open when he saw the message. A meeting? Shen Xingzhi is here?
He sent a location near the hospital, thinking that even if his mother happened to be getting a check-up, he could leave.
“I know why Yu Wenhao hasn’t returned to Tiancheng. His mother is sick, and having a sick person at home makes him very anxious, so he hasn’t been as proactive in sending you messages.” Rong Yan understood somewhat.
“He was getting a physical exam a few days ago, but they didn’t find anything wrong. He’s still getting more tests. If you ask me, he’s just faking it.” Shen Xingzhi saw right through him.
"That seems reasonable. Let's meet in person and talk about it. Some things can't be explained through messages."
At the hospital, when Yu's mother saw her son's message, she guessed it was from Shen Xingzhi, and her face immediately darkened.
"Wenhao, go get me some water." Mrs. Yu deliberately ordered her son around. After the water arrived, she said she was a little hungry, and after buying breakfast, she said the waiting area was too stuffy and she wanted to eat outside…
She kept going back and forth, not giving Yu Wenhao time to reply to her messages.
Yu Wenhao became increasingly irritable. He and his mother had only been outside for a few minutes when his mother said she was cold and wanted to go to the hospital. At that moment, the man exploded.
"Mom, did you do this on purpose?" He didn't care about the stares of those around him, his voice loud. "You secretly deleted my number, set it to reject calls, deliberately made me do things, and wouldn't let me reply to messages... If you're so capable, why did you insist on having me come to the hospital with you?"
"Wenhao, what kind of attitude do you have towards me? You've been impatient with me after accompanying me to the check-up a few times, haven't you? I've raised you all these years, and you're complaining after taking care of me for a few days?"
"Mom, keep your voice down?" Yu Wenhao said, looking down as he saw the people who had stopped to watch.
"I'm making this clear today: you're not allowed to go see that vixen. It's either me or her, you choose." Mrs. Yu simply stopped pretending.
Yu Wenhao had no choice. He wanted to calm his mother down and talk things over, but his mother insisted that he make a choice first, or else they would just stay there.
The man remained silent.
He thought his mother was tired of standing and would let him go, but he didn't expect his mother to be so physically fit.
As the time he had arranged to meet Shen Xingzhi was fast approaching, Yu Wenhao prepared to leave his mother behind, but she grabbed his arm.
Shen Xingzhi thought that since they hadn't seen each other for so long, Yu Wenhao would be eager to come over and wait for her once he knew she was coming.
But when she arrived at the coffee shop, she didn't see the man.
Rong Yan waited outside the whole time.
When the time came, Yu Wenhao still hadn't appeared. Shen Xingzhi made a phone call, but no one answered.
"Rong Yan." Finally, she sent a message to her best friend, asking her to come in.
The woman resting in the car was unaware that Yu Wenhao had not appeared.
"You've already reached an agreement?" Rong Yan asked as she sat down.
Shen Xingzhi's face turned bright red, and she clenched her fists: "He didn't come. Rong Yan, am I a joke? Even though I flew here to find him, he didn't come. When I set off, I actually presumptuously thought he would come ahead of time."
Rong Yan was stunned. She couldn't believe her ears until she saw her best friend's tears fall. She then took her best friend's hand and went back to the car.
Rong Yan knew how painful it was to be rejected after trying to get close to someone. She just couldn't understand why Yu Wenhao didn't come. Even if Yu's mother was really hospitalized, Yu's father could take care of her for a while. The date was near the hospital. What was so difficult about Yu Wenhao coming out?
Rong Yan was also angry. She dialed Yu Wenhao's number, intending to give the man a piece of her mind, but unfortunately, Yu Wenhao didn't answer her call.
"Go to the hospital to find him." Rong Yan couldn't sit still any longer; she had to see what Yu Wenhao was up to.
After crying, Shen Xingzhi touched up her makeup.
At the hospital, Yu Wenhao was held back by his mother, which attracted a crowd of onlookers. Unaware of what was going on, passersby advised Yu Wenhao that things could be discussed.
Yu Wenhao was so annoyed by his mother that he blurted out that he had to go back to Tiancheng. He thought that after making his choice, his mother would at most say that she would not acknowledge him, but he did not expect that his mother would say that if he dared to leave, he would come back to collect his corpse.
He knew his mother's temper; she wasn't trying to scare him.
As Shen Xingzhi prepared to enter the hospital, she saw a crowd gathered on the lawn. Disputes in hospitals were common, so the woman didn't think much of it and went straight in. Although the hospital wasn't large, finding someone wasn't so easy.
She and Rong Yan split up and asked many people, but they still couldn't find Yu Wenhao.
Shen Xingzhi squatted on the ground in despair: "Is he not in the hospital? His mother is not sick at all, he is lying to me."
Rong Yan was so angry that she smashed the wall, tears streaming down her face from the pain: "Ouch, I'm so angry! He's usually such an honest person, how could he do this? Xingzhi, don't worry, we'll be here these next few days, he'll always go home. We'll stake out his house."
Shen Xingzhi wanted to go back. She felt that Yu Wenhao was avoiding her because he wanted to break up with her, or perhaps Yu Wenhao was afraid that he wouldn't be able to say it to her face, and if she came to his door again, where would he put his face?
"Then don't come in. I'm going to settle the score with him." Rong Yan felt indignant for her best friend and couldn't swallow her anger.
Shen Xingzhi was thus taken to Yu Wenhao's house.
The courtyard was quiet. This was the address Yu Wenhao had left. The woman was a little scared; could the address be fake?
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