"...Leg!" Xiangyang shrank his neck and secretly swallowed. "Leg! My leg is cramping."
Qin Gang released him.
Xiangyang lay beside him, pretending to rub his feet. He was trembling with fear all night and didn't dare to sleep for a moment.
Qin Gang's antisocial index, like the hands of a clock, gradually decreased until it finally stabilized at 60% by dawn.
When Qin Gang got up, Xiang Yang didn't dare to get up either. Only after Qin Gang left did he dare to open his eyes.
I came back, but I barely saw Qin Gang.
Knowing that Qin Gang was busy with those so-called things again, Xiang Yang sighed and went back to school.
On his way to class, he ran into Tang Xi. Tang Xi felt that he was coming from the wrong direction, so she asked him why he didn't come from the dormitory.
Xiangyang: "I went home last night."
Tang Xi: "..."
"Oh right," Xiangyang suddenly remembered, "I haven't taken my books yet, I'll go back to the dorm first."
Tang Xi watched him leave, looking like she wanted to say something but couldn't, thinking to herself, "Why did I do all this good deeds here?"
Xiangyang would still send Qin Gang a message every day or two, but Qin Gang still never replied.
Xiangyang spent all day with his phone, sighing and complaining, which made his roommates increasingly suspicious.
"Is it still your 'father'?" Zhang Yu asked him.
Xiangyang: "Hmm..."
Cao Xingwang hesitated, then said, "Something about you... seems off. What can you do without your 'father'? Is it really that serious?"
Wang Xin: "Could it be that you, the 'father,' are the president of a listed company who have no biological children?"
Xiangyang was both amused and exasperated.
Zhang Yu, however, made a meaningful joke, saying, "Look at you, you're acting like you're in a relationship."
Not many people paid attention to Zhang Yu's words.
Seeing that Xiang Yang didn't react in any particular way, Zhang Yu assumed he was overthinking things and put the matter out of his mind.
The group started talking about some new things happening at school.
"Have you heard? Our school is planning to build a shopping mall."
"real!???"
"Of course it's true. Didn't you see that the long corridor in our school was demolished? It's definitely going to be rebuilt."
"Then there will be a coffee shop by then!"
"What's there to be excited about? Selling things at school, how can you expect a discount!"
"That's true..."
Xiangyang would go back every Sunday, but he never saw Qin Gang.
It's already the National Day holiday, and Xiangyang still hasn't seen him.
I'm here to do a mission, so I should at least see someone.
They don't reply to messages, and you can't get through on the phone.
Xiangyang had no choice but to try his luck at a few more places Qin Gang used to frequent.
Xiang Yang was somewhat familiar with these people, and none of them made things difficult for him. They knew he was looking for Qin Gang, but they couldn't explain where Qin Gang had gone.
Xiangyang: "Didn't he say where he went?"
“Brother Qin didn’t tell anyone either,” the man thought for a moment and said, “Why don’t you ask Sister Jiao?”
As he spoke, the man craned his neck and shouted, "Sister Jiao—"
Hearing the noise, Jiao Jie came out of the chess and card room, and when she saw Xiang Yang, she was stunned for a moment and wanted to reach out and pinch his face.
But then, as if struck by a sudden thought, Sister Jiao abruptly withdrew her hand, feeling somewhat embarrassed. She said, "Good student, did you pass the postgraduate entrance exam?"
Xiangyang: "We're ashore... Sister Jiao, where's Uncle Qin?"
Sister Jiao: "Brother Qin, he's gone back to his hometown."
"Huh?" Xiangyang asked again, "Why is Brother Qin thinking of going back to his hometown? Where is Brother Qin's hometown?"
Jiao Jie couldn't remember either, saying, "It seems to be some kind of village... Oh dear, I can't remember either."
"Oh, he's gone back to the village?" Xiangyang asked anxiously. "When will he be back?"
Seeing his anxious look, Sister Jiao laughed and said, "I have no idea about that."
As she spoke, Sister Jiao moved closer to him, her eyes filled with amusement, "Good student, you don't actually have feelings for Brother Qin, do you? Oh, don't be so hasty, sweetie."
Xiangyang sensed something was off about her tone, thought for a moment, and then asked with a smile, "Is it shrimp soup?"
Sister Jiao was taken aback for a moment, then smiled.
Xiangyang: "Uncle Qin didn't know beforehand, did he?"
Sister Jiao smiled without saying a word, then turned and left.
Xiangyang asked Xiaoguai, "Can you find out Qin Gang's hometown?"
Xiao Guai: "The information is not displayed."
“It’s over,” Xiangyang said. “We’ve lost all our mission objectives.”
Xiao Guai: "...Then, what do we do?"
Xiangyang: "What else can we do but wait for him to come back?"
He said he was waiting for him to come back, but before Xiangyang even returned to school, he started sending messages to Qin Gang non-stop.
The message disappeared without a trace.
Xiangyang started making phone calls one after another for several days.
Finally, when the lights-out whistle blew at 11 p.m. that night, the phone call suddenly went through.
Xiangyang couldn't believe it and even glanced at his phone.
A deep, hesitant voice suddenly came from the other end, "...Hello?"
Xiang Yang was stunned for a moment, then started cursing: "Are you crazy! How many messages have I sent you, how many phone calls have I made! Would it kill you to reply to me!"
Wang Xin quickly stopped him, "Xiangyang! Xiangyang! Lights out, lights out! You'll call Auntie over soon!"
Xiangyang turned and went to the bathroom.
Cao Xingwang swallowed hard, pointed with his chin towards the bathroom, and said, "So... should we call his 'dad' now?"
Zhang Yu lay on the bed, silent.
Qin Gang listened to Xiang Yang's cursing without saying a word. After Xiang Yang finished cursing, he said with a slight smile, "I don't have much signal here right now, so I didn't see your message."
"No signal?" Xiangyang wondered. "Where are you?"
"Brother Qin! Who are you talking to on the phone?" a man asked in a loud voice with a local accent.
"Could it be that he found a wife in the city?"
"I think so! I think so! Hahaha!"
Xiangyang couldn't quite tell which region's accent they were speaking, but he understood what they meant.
He was waiting for Qin Gang to explain, but Qin Gang ignored them completely and let them make a fuss. He just said to Xiang Yang, "I'll go back in a while."
"Oh dear! Brother Qin's wife is getting anxious! Hahaha!"
Xiangyang couldn't stand it anymore.
Some people even leaned close to the phone and shouted.
"Sister-in-law! Don't worry!"
"Yes, sister-in-law, Brother Qin will be taking me back in a few days!"
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