It's Jiang Tian.
In an instant, Su Yuyao felt as if he had been struck by an electric current, and a tingling sensation spread through his limbs, bones, and even his internal organs. For a moment, he completely lost the ability to speak.
However, after a long silence, he finally came to his senses.
He took a deep breath and forced out a voice through his throat: "Jiang Tian, where are you? Where...where are you? How have you been these past few days?"
Despite his anxiety, Su Yuyao didn't know where to begin and could only repeatedly ask a few bland questions.
He desperately needed to know how she was doing; he wanted to know if she was doing well.
Hearing the concern in his voice, Jiang Tian chuckled softly on the other end of the phone.
After some time, Jiang Tian seemed to be suppressing her emotions. Her voice was a little low: "I'm sorry, I disappeared for so long and didn't contact you. I made you worry."
"It's okay, as long as you can come back..."
"I won't go back," Jiang Tian said calmly.
Su Yuyao's mind went blank.
Jiang Tian continued, "Originally, I didn't plan to call you. It would have been best if our story had ended without each other knowing. But I never expected my disappearance to cause such a huge storm."
“I’ve been living a peaceful life lately, but not long ago I learned that someone was tracking my whereabouts, so I thought of you and Jiang Xianyu.”
"Actually, he might have a better plan than you, after all, his family is already at the forefront of high-tech research and development. But after thinking it over, I still called you. If it's convenient, I hope you can help me and tell Jiang Xianyu to stop investigating... If you feel it's difficult, then forget it."
Su Yuyao suppressed the pain spreading in his heart and couldn't help but grip his phone tightly.
He asked softly, "...What did you mean by what you just said? You're not coming back?"
Jiang Tian smiled over there.
She said slowly, "Su Yuyao, first of all, I have to apologize to you. I think you should know what you need to know. At first, I did approach you to get revenge. My younger brother went through a lot of hardship to get into that university. He wanted to give me a good life, and I firmly believed that he would be able to achieve this after graduation. But unexpectedly, his life was ruined in the blink of an eye."
“You know very well what happened to him. Just because he offended someone he shouldn’t have, he was treated extremely harshly. He was expelled from school, and his life was ruined. When I heard the news, I could barely stand.”
Su Yuyao's face turned slightly pale.
"Later, he even had suicidal thoughts. How could I tolerate him leaving this world? After all, he was my only family member. So, I absolutely could not stand by and watch him fall into the abyss. In order to control his condition, I sent him to a mental hospital."
Jiang Tian's tone wasn't particularly impatient; she always gave off a quiet, gentle, and mild-mannered vibe.
Even when recounting her tragic past, Jiang Tian did not exaggerate how miserable they were.
"At first, I really wanted to get revenge on you, but later, I hoped to find a way to make you show mercy and let my brother go back—"
She was interrupted by Su Yuyao as she said this: "Bring him back, and I'll let him go back to university. Don't worry, he'll definitely graduate smoothly. He'll have a good job and a bright future. Everything you want him to have, I'll give him."
Su Yuyao's voice was full of urgency.
After a brief pause, Jiang Tian couldn't help but laugh again.
Her voice carried a hint of apology: "No, we don't need those things anymore. I still want to apologize again for causing you trouble. I'm so sorry."
What did she have to apologize for? All she needed to do was go back to him!
“I knew too little about your high society before, and I didn’t quite understand why my brother, who was an excellent student since childhood, was expelled from school at this time. Later, I was drawn into that world by you and saw too many tragedies. It wasn’t until then that I realized that my brother was lucky in a sense.”
"At least he wasn't abused or had his dignity trampled on; he was only expelled from school, which is already far better than many others. Actually, I gave up on him enrolling a long time ago. Received an education in that kind of environment, his psyche would only suffer more severe damage. He is a somewhat sensitive child, and I don't want him to be ruined by that kind of life."
“Where are you? Tell me where you are, I’ll come find you now, and we’ll talk in person. There are many things that can’t be clearly explained over the phone. I can tell you everything I have. We need to talk, do you understand, Jiang Tian?”
Su Yuyao didn't want to hear about her brother; he just wanted to win back the person he loved.
He didn't want them to be separated even though they both existed in this world.
"Don't come looking for me anymore. We're doing just fine now. More important than which university we go to or what kind of future we have, what my brother and I need most right now is inner peace. I've already gotten what I wanted."
Su Yuyao forced himself to take a deep breath and calm down: "You must trust me to call me, otherwise you wouldn't have called me. Don't you have any feelings for me at all? We had some great times together."
“No,” Jiang Tian chuckled softly on the other end, “I’m calling you because I feel I owe you the most. To be honest, I really didn’t expect our relationship to go so well. I originally planned to leave you after I came to terms with it, but who knew that all sorts of unexpected things would happen one after another.”
“My background has been exposed, and some of my past experiences in Cui Linye’s family have been dug up. Even Madam Cui wants me to marry Cui Linye in order to fulfill her own wishes… In short, everything is in complete chaos. I did not expect such a chaotic situation, and it is something I cannot change in a short time.”
“That day at the airport, I really wanted to go find you. Sometimes I really think love is quite terrifying, you know? I had originally planned how to get revenge on you, I wanted you to suffer the same pain as me, but in the end I gave up... I silently gave up my plan, just hoping to stay by your side for a little longer, waiting for your feelings to burn out, so we could part amicably.”
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