Now, I don't think that way anymore. My heart is filled with anxiety about not being valued... I am increasingly dominated by this feeling of anxiety, which then makes me angry. I threw all the fruit I had just bought into the trash can next to me, and then booked a flight from Shanghai to Kunming for tomorrow morning.
I was too embarrassed to even call Dai Qiang and ask him out for dinner. I just bought a bowl of instant noodles, borrowed some hot water from the convenience store, and ate it while squatting by the roadside.
...
My phone finally vibrated. I thought it must be a reply from Ye Zhi, but it was from Yang Sisi, whom I hadn't contacted since we left. She asked with a hostile tone, "Are you going to die?... Why did you bring Cao Xiaobei to see me?"
"This is a misunderstanding."
"Misunderstanding my foot... He insisted that he ran into you at a bar in the old town last night, and you told him I was hospitalized... So, what illness do I have... lovesickness?"
"He's the one who said it, so you should ask him for an explanation."
"He's already explained it clearly enough... I'm just wondering, have you gotten so bored in Dali that you're spouting nonsense like that!"
I gritted my teeth and finally explained, "This is really a misunderstanding... I was drinking with a friend at a bar yesterday, and we happened to be talking about a friend in Shanghai who was hospitalized... Cao Xiaobei believed everything he heard and thought you were my only friend in Shanghai... so he rushed over to see you overnight. It's really not my fault!"
"Hehe...I know which of your friends in Shanghai is hospitalized."
"I know...it's Ye Zhi."
"You must be really upset about it... otherwise, how could you chat with your friends?"
"Look at what you're saying!"
This time, it took Yang Sisi half an hour to reply to the message: "Where are you now?"
The Bund.
A moment later, Yang Sisi sent a message: "I almost didn't realize it... I thought for a long time, is there a place called the Bund near Erhai Lake... I suddenly realized, it's the Bund in Shanghai... Michael, you're really something, even when I threatened to kill you before, you refused to go back to Shanghai... I didn't expect you to come back so easily this time... Should I be happy for you, or am I sorry?"
I'm having a bit of a headache. This shouldn't have been a complicated situation, but I ran into Cao Xiaobei in the ancient city last night, which led to this misunderstanding... Of course, I could choose to lie to Yang Sisi and say that I was in Dali.
But I can't do that. Even if Yang Sisi feels that I'm being unfair to her, isn't that the right outcome?
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