"Ah Ting, my daddy forbids us from being together and sent me abroad. Please save me..."
Xia Xueqing was probably aware of the existence of time differences.
It was already 4 PM in Country D when she finished contacting everyone in her phone book. It was 10 PM in China at the time. Huo Ting was singing and had already finished get off work late at night. She endured until 10 AM in China, after Huo Ting had finished breakfast, before finally calling him.
Huo Ting was destined not to have his phone with him at this time, so Su Xiaoyue answered the call.
Su Xiaoyue hid in the kitchen and closed the door to prevent Huo Ting from hearing her.
She listened with great interest to her tragic story, then giggled and said, "Is that so? Your daddy won't allow you to be with Brother Ting? Well, it just so happens that Brother Ting doesn't want to be with you either, so everyone's happy."
Although she was unhappy that Xia Hongfei was blind to Huo Ting's talent, she was happy that one less person was competing with her for Huo Ting.
"Su Xiaoyue! How come it's you?" Xia Xueqing had never liked Su Xiaoyue, even though she was Huo Ting's sister. She couldn't help but like her because of her sister. Now that she knew she had lost face in front of her, she became even more furious.
"Let Ah Ting answer the phone."
Su Xiaoyue listened intently outside, and after confirming that Huo Ting hadn't noticed her phone was missing, she started to act on her own.
"Of course it's me, Xia-mei. Brother Ting was annoyed when he saw it was you calling, but since you have such a good dad, he couldn't not answer. So he specially tossed the phone to me. I'll tell Brother Ting the good news that you won't bother him anymore. You're welcome."
Xia Xueqing felt a pang of pain in her heart, but she refused to believe that she hadn't been able to warm Huo Ting's heart after all this time. She stubbornly said, "Su Xiaoyue, give the phone to Huo Ting. I want to hear him say it to me in person."
"Xia-meimei, people should have some self-respect. Brother Ting likes my sister, not you."
"He saved me back then, he never cared about anyone else..."
"Oh dear, don't you know? That's because my sister's name also contains the character for 'snow'. Do you think Brother Ting would have paid attention to you if your friend had called her Qing'er back then?"
This sentence was a direct hit to Xia Xueqing's heart. She was speechless for a long time and couldn't figure out why Huo Ting, who was Su Xiaoyue's brother, liked her sister—she had never doubted that they weren't real siblings.
However, this is also true. 001 speculates that if her best friend Yuan hadn't called out "Xue'er" in her panic, and Huo Ting hadn't happened to hear it, there would most likely not have been this scene of a hero saving a beauty.
Su Xiaoyue hung up the phone, deleted the call log, silenced her phone, put it back on the dining table, and hummed a song as she cleared away the dishes.
001 and Emperor Xiudao said, "I like this little girl, and she makes tea so adorably."
Emperor Xiu remained noncommittal.
After Xia Xueqing realized what was happening, she immediately flew into a rage.
She had always considered Huo Ting and Su Xiaoyue to be siblings, but now that she realized they weren't, she immediately added Su Xiaoyue to her list of rivals.
Not long after 001 finished speaking, Di Xiu received a call from Xia Xueqing.
The little girl had probably forgotten her promise to her father, and also his current ruthlessness and indifference. Her voice trembled with tears and grievance as she spoke: "Daddy, I want to go back! If I don't go back, A-Ting will run off with someone else! That Su Xiaoyue isn't his sister at all..."
Di Xiu listened quietly to her crying, and only after signing the documents in his hand did he calmly say, "That's good. The sooner he marries someone, the sooner you can come back."
“Ah Ting is mine, Daddy. If he’s with someone else, I’ll hate you. I’ll hate you to death.”
If Di Xiu remembered correctly, when he first came to this world, this girl was asking how to make Huo Ting fall in love with her. After he arrived, the two of them should not have had a chance to meet. When did things develop to this point?
This girl is probably suffering from hysteria.
As for hating him, so be it. He doesn't like this adopted daughter anyway.
"What I said will not change. If you want to come back, there are only two ways."
Xia Xueqing cried even louder: "You've gone too far! Why can you be with Mommy, but I can't be with A-Ting? You promised Mommy you would take good care of me, but now you've left me here all alone. I hate you, I hate you, Xia Hongfei."
Di Xiu rubbed his temples and tossed the phone to 001: "You explain to her."
001, who was originally muttering to himself, immediately became happy when he was given the opportunity to complain to his face.
He intercepted the signal, simulated Xia Hongfei's voice, and boasted proudly on behalf of the original owner: "When I was 17, I co-developed an app with my classmates, which still brings me an eight-figure net income every year... At 20, I graduated from university and started taking the civil service exam. By 28, I had become the mayor, and since 24, I've also had to take care of the company. You're 20 now, your grades are terrible, and I arranged an internship for you at the company, but you stood up clients, shifted blame to colleagues, ruined orders, and made the whole company clean up your mess..."
"You ask me why? Let me tell you, it's because I have the ability to choose a partner and provide a good life for your mother. But you and Huo Ting are both so unambitious, neither of you has the ability to give the other a good life. It's because your mother and I are mutually in love, while you only have unrequited love. It's because I don't have parents to care for me, but your father is still alive..."
"Xia Xueqing, open your eyes and look at your life lately. Without the Xia family, you can't even live a single day well. What makes you think Huo Ting would choose you? Do you think you have me as your father?"
In this respect, she is not even as good as the male lead.
001 had already restrained herself from embarrassing her too much, but Xia Xueqing still cried hysterically.
"You're not my daddy, I hate you, and I never want to talk to you again."
"Besides saying you hate me, what else can you say?"
"beep--"
This time, it was Xia Xueqing who hung up the phone.
001 pouted, disconnected the signal, and complained to Di Xiu, "She didn't even notice the obvious difference in my tone compared to yours."
Interestingly, two days later, Di Xiu received a call from an unknown number on his phone. 001 checked and said, "It's Huo Ting."
The phone rang twice, but was hung up before Di Xiu could answer. Since Huo Ting was in his rented apartment, which had no surveillance cameras, 001 had no way of knowing what was going on with him.
Three minutes later, 001: "Huo Ting called his old friend."
Ten minutes later.
"He bought a plane ticket to country D."
001 did some quick calculations and was utterly speechless.
"From the first time the male and female leads met until Xia Xueqing went to Country D, it was only 39 days, right? Huo Ting has already let go of his white moonlight and started to fall for someone else? Is our act of breaking up the couple actually helping them get together ahead of time?"
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