Chapter 44
“Beep—beep—”
Hearing the beeping sound from the other end of the phone, Xia Ruirui sobered up a little, her hands still in the same position as when she answered the phone.
“…”
She blinked and looked at the ceiling with some disbelief.
After being in a daze for a moment, he looked at the phone screen again.
The screen showed the phone number that had just been hung up by the other party. She held up her eyelids to confirm it again - it was indeed Shen Yuqing's number.
Thinking she was dreaming, she even found the recording of her conversation with Shen Yuqing.
“Xia Ruirui, why do you keep calling me Shen Yuqing?”
“Xia Ruirui, why do you keep calling me Shen Yuqing?”
“Xia Ruirui, why do you keep calling me Shen Yuqing?”
…
She played it several times to make sure she heard it correctly before turning off the recording.
"If I don't call him Chen Yuqing, should I call him Xia Ruirui?" She complained to herself.
Recalling Shen Yuqing's voice on the phone just now, his nasal tone was very heavy, and he must have been drunk too.
Xia Ruirui still found it hard to believe that she was woken up by a drunkard.
Is Shen Yuqing holding a grudge like this now?
Could it be because of the last time before going to Yunjin, when she and Wang Kelly got drunk and called him to act crazy?
So... he is secretly taking revenge on her now?
Shen Yuqing has always been very strict, and it is rare for her to see such an abstract side of him.
Xia Ruirui didn't know if she was crazy, she actually thought a drunkard was cute.
Then I thought of the scene in his studio where his big-breasted secretary sat on his lap.
"F**k you, Shen Yuqing, you stinky ass."
"Not sleeping late at night********."
After cursing at the air for several times, Xia Ruirui finally calmed down and fell into a deep sleep hugging her pillow.
On the other side, Shen Yuqing sneezed several times in succession.
Realizing that it might be Xia Ruirui who was scolding him, someone felt a strange sense of happiness in his heart.
My brows, which had been furrowed all night, suddenly relaxed...
If it weren't for caring.
How could she possibly waste her energy scolding him?
*
The next day, Shen Yuqing looked at the call records on his phone and was absent-minded for a long time.
He was still a little nervous. If Xia Ruirui called him after waking up, how would he explain it?
He hoped that Xia Ruirui could know the dark side of his heart, but at the same time he didn't want her to know.
Because he was always worried that she might call him, he was a little distracted the whole afternoon.
I just played a few games live and then quickly finished my work for the day.
However, on the other side, Xia Ruirui had long forgotten what happened last night and was now happily eating the steak she ordered.
She had been in Xijing long enough and her work here was finished, so she wanted to go back to Beiyi to have a good rest.
She booked her flight early in the morning, for this evening.
Xia Ruirui remembered that Shen Qingli had a court hearing today and Gu Zijin was a very busy man, so she didn't tell them, thinking that she would report to them that she was safe when she arrived in Beiyi.
As for Shen Yuqing.
She admitted that she was petty and had no intention of letting him deliver it.
After eating steak, Xia Ruirui simply packed her luggage and headed towards the airport with her suitcase.
When she returned to Beiyi's apartment, she didn't even take a shower. After reporting to Shen Qingli that she was safe, she slept until the early morning.
On the other side, Shen Yuqing saw the text message that Gu Zijin sent him, saying that Xia Ruirui had arrived safely in Beiyi, and he laughed out of anger.
He threw his phone on the sofa, stood up, poured himself a glass of cold water, and drank it all in one gulp.
As autumn approaches, even a glass of cold water cannot extinguish the anger in someone's heart.
When Shen Yuqing thought about how his mood was fluctuating because of Xia Ruirui's words, and that the culprit might still be sleeping, he felt a little upset.
He didn't know how to capture her heart, he just felt powerless and uncomfortable.
He hated her heartlessness and also hated himself for not having the ability to make her fall in love with him.
Until the second half of the night, Shen Yuqing lay on the soft mattress, still without a trace of sleep...
At the same time, Xia Ruirui woke up and saw that her phone had no unread messages, and she subconsciously felt a little depressed.
She opened WeChat and the most recent message was an emoticon package sent by Shen Qingli after she reported her safety to her.
Apart from that, there wasn't a single unread text message.
This feeling of loneliness and being abandoned by the whole world cannot be described in words, especially late at night, when this feeling of frustration is particularly magnified.
Xia Ruirui looked at her unusually quiet phone, then glanced at the time. It was 3 a.m., and she didn't know who to talk to.
She is a person who enjoys solitude, but at this moment, she just doesn't want to be alone.
She was bored and flipping through her phone, and almost entered a game.
She had played that game when she was in college, but although Xia Ruirui loved playing games, she was very bad at it.
She hasn't played this game for many years, but she still logs in to take a look every year or two.
This is also the reason why she has changed several mobile phones, but the game is still in her phone.
The last time she logged in was probably two years ago. Xia Ruirui opened her game account and found that her game ID was called Beautiful Wolf.
“…”
She used to be a bit emo, but when she saw this ID, she laughed so hard that she fell on the pillow.
She remembered this ID because she had just watched a movie and was very excited.
Xia Ruirui remembered that the movie was called The Wolf's Journey Home. She was deeply moved by the unwavering loyalty between the wolf and the boy in the movie.
It happened that she was still a little narcissistic at that time, so she chose this name.
Looking at the childish online name she had chosen back then, she didn't feel awkward, she just found it a little funny.
Xia Ruirui was still lamenting that just a few years had passed and her mentality had become a little vicissitudes of life, but when she opened the friend list in the game, she laughed so hard that she couldn't straighten her back again.
In her game list, there was a game friend named 'Lonely Wolf', and coincidentally, the other party was also online.
'Lonely Wolf' and her 'Beautiful Wolf', they seem like a perfect match.
At least they are of the same race.
Xia Ruirui remembers that she played this game when she was in her freshman or sophomore year.
That was the time when her undergraduate schedule was the busiest, and she, Shen Qingli, and Gu Zijin were not in the same university.
Because she secretly changed her major without telling them, their relationship became a little awkward.
Although they would contact each other occasionally, they rarely found time to play games together.
Therefore, she basically plays this game alone.
And this 'lone wolf' appeared at that time.
At that time, Xia Ruirui had just finished her professional course and returned to the dormitory when she saw a friend request in the game.
Because she just wanted to add a gaming friend and there happened to be no one to play games with her, she agreed to the request.
She originally thought that she would only play games with this stranger online a few times, but she didn't expect that he would play games with her for an entire semester.
She knew nothing about him, only that this netizen seemed to dislike talking.
Every time I played games with him, he never turned on the microphone.
The two of them had never chatted before. Whenever Xia Ruirui saw him online, she would invite him to form a team, and he would occasionally invite her too.
Because Xia Ruirui was not very good at playing games, she died very quickly, and sometimes she was even killed as soon as she landed on the ground.
But the Lone Wolf never said anything to her. Instead, he protected her every time in the game.
There was even one time when she fell seven times and he helped her up seven times, to the extent that even the shameless Xia Ruirui would feel embarrassed.
However, the two of them won the game in the end.
It can be said that Xia Ruirui was able to become the ace in this game because of her teammate on the opposite side who never used the microphone.
She felt a little guilty about relying on her teammates and always holding them back.
Therefore, in the second month after being led by the boss, she finally decided not to be a burden anymore and rejected the other boss's invitation to form a team.
The other party invited her three times and she refused three times.
I thought the lonely wolf would find someone else to play games with, but I didn't expect that the teammate who never turned on the microphone would actually send her a message for the first time.
He said that no one played games with him and it was too lonely to play games alone.
When she heard this, she suddenly became compassionate and once again took advantage of the situation and clung to the other person's thighs.
After being diagnosed with depression in her senior year of high school, Xia Ruirui would regularly receive psychological treatment from a psychologist.
In addition to taking medication regularly, her condition has stabilized a lot in about a year.
And it was this stranger online who accompanied her during the two months when her depression was the most severe.
Although he had no idea about her illness, they had never even talked much.
She had never heard his voice, didn't even know his name, or his age.
But Xia Ruirui has always had a good impression of him. Although they are just netizens, she actually regards him as a friend in her heart.
But after her condition stabilized, she stopped relying on the game.
Later, she logged into the game less and less frequently, but until her senior year internship, he was online every time she went online.
The two of them would occasionally play a game together.
It was not until she started working that Lone Wolf came online less and less frequently, and gradually the two of them had no more interactions and became passers-by to each other.
But she didn't expect that this time she accidentally clicked into the game, and it was four o'clock in the morning, and he was actually online.
Seeing him online, Xia Ruirui felt the joy of reuniting with a good friend she hadn't seen for many years.
But we haven't seen each other for many years, and it seems a bit presumptuous to invite him to play games again.
Thinking of this, Xia Ruirui started the game alone again.
Having not played games for a long time, and with her hands a little clumsy, Xia Ruirui was eliminated again after many years.
“…”
Looking at the settlement page, someone restarted the game without giving up.
She was still trying to get the feel for the game, but she saw a pop-up window on the left indicating that a friend was watching the game.
She only has one in-game friend in this game, and it couldn't be anyone else except the Lone Wolf, but Xia Ruirui still took a look to confirm.
It was indeed him.
After this game was over, I saw the other party's invitation to join a team.
When she saw the invitation message again, she didn't know why she felt as if she was in another world, and she suddenly remembered her senior year of high school.
The helplessness and pain when he learned that he had depression, and the hurt and resolute look in his eyes when she rejected Shen Yuqing.
That look has haunted her all these years, even reappearing in her nightmares.
Xia Ruirui admitted that she could not forget Shen Yuqing and did not have the courage to start over with him.
That's why it's even more painful.
Thinking of the torment she had endured over the years, she was a little dazed for a moment, until the other party's invitation expired, she came to her senses.
Xia Ruirui wanted to pretend that she didn't see it, but the next second she received an invitation to team up from the other side.
[Lone Wolf submits a team invitation to you, do you accept? ]
Xia Ruirui thought about it and accepted his invitation to join a team.
*
On the other side, the man behind the screen looked at the message "The other party has accepted your team invitation" coming from the game interface, and couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth.
The man's gaze passed over the gaming chair and focused on a corner.
After a long while, he slowly stood up from the black leather sofa, walked to the storage room, and took out a voice changer from a corner...
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