“I’ve called her several times but she hasn’t answered. I’m quite worried. Otherwise… let’s go to my cousin’s house to check on her.”
Lu Tingyi thought for a moment and did not immediately agree. "Maybe she's sleeping. I'll call Ranran later to check."
Wen Qingyu, not getting a satisfactory answer, snorted, "Does Brother Tingyi think I'm lying to you?!"
"That's not what I meant. It's just that Ranran... doesn't like other people coming to her house."
Wen Qingyu sensed the intimacy between him and Mu Yiran in his words and scoffed, "Brother really knows his cousin well. In your heart, you also don't think I'm her family."
"No, Qingyu, you've misunderstood me—"
Wen Qingyu interrupted him, "In that case, I, as someone else, will not get in your and your cousin's way. Go find her yourself."
After saying that, Wen Qingyu hung up the phone immediately.
Jiang Wen, who had listened to the whole thing, somewhat disapproved of her approach, saying, "What if he really doesn't take you with him if you do this?"
Wen Qingyu said confidently, "Absolutely not." The next second, her phone started vibrating.
Wen Qingyu smugly shook her phone at Jiang Wen, but hung up immediately without answering. After several attempts, Lu Tingyi sent her a WeChat message.
【I'm sorry, Qingyu. I spoke rudely just now. Please don't be angry. I'll pick you up after work, and we'll go find Ranran together.】
Jiang Wen felt relieved. "This boy is quite sincere towards you." She gazed intently at her daughter. "Whether you can continue to be the envy of everyone as a young lady depends on yourself."
“The antique dowry left by her maternal grandmother should have been left to the eldest son of the Wen family. How can it all be given to a wild girl from another family? Don’t feel any burden. Those things should have been inherited by your father. You are just taking them back.”
The mother and daughter's faces showed undisguised greed, without any regard for the fact that taking things as they were entitled to was stealing.
...
—“Buzz, buzz.…”
"Ranran, Ranran is the most precious treasure your mother has ever received, more dazzling than any jewel in the world."
"Dad is buying candied chestnuts for Ranran. Ranran is waiting obediently at home for her parents."
"There's been a car accident at the entrance! Oh dear, it looks like it's Vice Mayor Mu and his wife. Poor thing, their daughter is so young..."
"Ranran, go to sleep. I'll stay with you. You're not alone; you still have me."
—“Buzz, buzz.…”
"Sister, sister, I feel terrible..."
Mu Yiran slowly opened her eyes, her dizzy vision clearing up. She stared at the ceiling for a while before she came back to her senses from the ethereal state of her dream.
She sat up in bed in a daze, a thin layer of sweat already on her forehead.
It's been so long since I've dreamed of people from the past.
Sometimes Mu Yiran felt quite good. If she often dreamed of her deceased parents, back when she was abandoned abroad by the Wen family, she would definitely follow them out of resentment and guilt. But her parents rarely came to see her, so Mu Yiran always thought that if she lived one more day and slept one more day, maybe she could dream of them again next time.
Day after day, until she met Mo Mumu, until she returned to her mother's alma mater, until she turned 18 and inherited her mother's brand, until she traveled through time and met Shi Youxi.
Thinking this, Mu Yiran suddenly felt very fortunate that she had survived. She was also fortunate that she had been rescued from being robbed and killed by prisoners on the street abroad that year.
but....
Mu Yiran rubbed her temples as she recalled that she had indeed heard that faint vibrating bell again in her dream, but it was clearer than the last time she heard it in the living room.
That's the phone's ringtone, or the one that comes with the system.
Mu Yiran pulled out her iPhone 6 Plus from under the pillow next to her. The ringtone was definitely playing, but no one was calling her.
It can even make a sound on its own?
Mu Yiran suddenly remembered a famous ghost movie, and she was so frightened that she got goosebumps all over her body, lost her sleepiness, and got out of bed to drink a glass of milk to calm her nerves.
The door opened as soon as I pressed the doorknob. "Strange...did I forget to lock the door when I went to sleep?"
Too many strange things were happening, and Mu Yiran suddenly felt that someone was hiding in this dark villa.
Little Black might be right behind her!
She walked downstairs without looking back, turning on the lights as she went. The motion-sensor lights on the stairs lit up one after another with the sound of her footsteps, and the light spread from the corridor into the restaurant.
Mu Yiran stopped at the edge of the warm light and saw a tall figure huddled up beside the island platform.
The figure turned around at the sound, dappled light illuminating his face. The boy was wearing pajamas, his hair was disheveled, and his face was pale, but the area around his eyes was red.
Shi Youxi reached out her hand and said in a hoarse voice, "Sister, I feel so bad."
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