Chapter 64 A call that shouldn't have been answered [VIP]
A joke made in youth may become a lifelong nightmare for the person involved.
——Orange Confessions
Annan No. 3 Middle School is a semi-closed school. Except for day students and holidays, boarding students can only move around on campus, whether eating, sleeping or studying.
When Zhen Hao was in high school, Zhen Dongcheng went back to Tianjin to do business, determined to make a comeback, leaving He Yunlian and her two children in their hometown in Minzhen.
As for Grandma Zhen, she lived in Min Town for most of her life.
At that time, Zhen Hao didn't like to go home and had no attachment to his home. His only concern was his elderly grandmother.
She never understood why her roommates missed home so much that they cried, nor why they could chat with their parents or talk on the phone endlessly from morning to night.
She didn't understand where this desire to share came from, and didn't understand what was so good about topics like "what did you eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner, what time did you go to bed, what time did you get up?" But most of her classmates and their parents got along in the same way, which made her feel that she was the abnormal one.
What she was most thankful for was that Zhou Chunrui and Yan Yunshu were still in the same school as her. Even though she and Yan Yunshu were in different classes, they could still go to the convenience store to buy water, eat in the cafeteria, or go for a walk or night run on the playground together after class and after school.
Her high school life was peaceful and warm, a feeling she could not experience in the Zhen family.
Because of this, she became less and less willing to go home, gradually going home from every weekend to once every two weeks, and even once a month.
He Yunlian had no objection to this. She didn't care much about her two daughters to begin with. In addition, Zhen Dongcheng made some money in those years and sent more living expenses home than in previous years.
When people have abundant material conditions, they always look at everything with a pleasant expression. He Yunlian is a good example.
She bought more new clothes, gave him a more fashionable hairstyle, and took her son out to eat and play, completely forgetting that she had two daughters in boarding school.
Zhen Hao and her sister, one in the high school department and the other in the middle school department of Annan No. 3 Middle School, talk to them on the phone every week. Whenever Zhen Mei receives a call from her father, she sends a message to Zhen Hao: "Sister, Dad just called me."
"Well, what did Dad say?" Zhen Hao always asked this.
"Dad said that the winding mountain road from school to home is not dry, and told us that if we have nothing to do, we can stay at school and rest or study." Zhen Mei replied.
That’s right, Zhen Hao’s confidence in not going home for a month came from Zhen Dongcheng.
To get back to Min Town from school, one has to pass through a long, winding and steep mountain road. It doesn’t matter in sunny weather, but once there is a typhoon or heavy rain, the risk factor rises sharply.
Zhen Hao doesn't like winding and steep mountain roads, nor does he like his home hidden in the mountains.
She wanted to fly out and see the wider world.
So she studied hard and worked hard to improve herself, all for one thing - knowledge changes destiny.
In the summer of 2009, the mobile phone management system at Annan No. 3 Middle School was still relatively lax, and almost every student had one.
Zhen Hao uses a Samsung slider phone that her uncle retired from. It has a red and black color scheme and a stylish and beautiful body. She likes it very much.
In her spare time, she wrote essays and novels on her mobile phone and submitted them to the school magazine. Unexpectedly, many of her articles were selected and published.
She wrote "Grandpa and Nanyin", "The Lamb and the Flowers and Grass", "Orange Confession" in which the protagonist is a person from the planet Alpha, and she also wrote about the secret thoughts of a girl, and carefully named it "Half a Beam of Moonlight".
At their age, when love is just beginning, many girls read the "Half Moonlight" column in the school magazine specially opened for Zhen Hao. This column is for her to write essays and even serial novels.
Over time, many people in No. 3 Middle School began to speculate what kind of girl could write such delicate and touching words.
One ordinary afternoon, just after the first period, a crowd of people crowded around the back door of the classroom. At the time, there was a tall, long-legged boy in Zhen Hao's class who looked a lot like a celebrity, so she naturally assumed that those people were there to see her "celebrity classmate."
Amid the noise, someone shouted "Student Qiao Yuanshan", and then the entire noisy classroom suddenly became quiet.
Zhen Hao's whole body froze, and then his heart began to beat wildly, which was particularly clear in the silent space.
Yuanshan Qiao was the pen name she used when writing articles in the school magazine.
Originally, as long as Zhen Hao didn't come out and admit it was him, all this would be over quickly. However, Zhou Chunrui, who had been secretly sleeping in class, was woken up at this moment. He heard someone shouting his best friend's pen name and said dazedly, "Hao Hao, why do I hear someone calling you? Isn't Yuanshan Qiao your pen name... Am I dreaming?"
Zhen Hao: “…”
, she was exposed.
Come, there are all kinds of sounds.
The girl in the class has the loudest voice——
"Mr. Zhen, your writing is so touching. I love it!"
"Great! I didn't expect it to be you! Ahhh, so my idol is right next to me! Promise me, keep writing, okay? My boring study life can't be nourished without your words."
"Okay, can you write more? Wow, it's not enough! When will the hero confess his love to the heroine?"
As for
"So she's the school magazine editor's favorite. She's pretty."
"I feel like this is the kind of girl my brother would like. I'm going to ask him to bring her back to be my sister-in-law!"
"She's as straightforward as her pen name, quiet and powerful. Please update!"
This was the most watched and the most praised moment in Zhen Hao's 16-year life.
Amidst everyone's praise, her face turned redder and redder, and in the end she was too embarrassed to even lie down on the table and pretend to be dead.
After that, she was given the title of "shy talented woman".
In any case, the feeling of being noticed is always wonderful. At that time, Zhen Hao was very grateful to No. 3 Middle School for its open-minded teaching style, which encouraged students to develop in a diversified manner while ensuring their academic performance. This gave her a stage to showcase her talents.
The school magazine of No. 3 Middle School is where Zhen Hao feels most fulfilled.
But how could life be smooth sailing? One night when the lights were about to go out, she received a call from an unknown number.
She didn't want to answer the phone, but after hesitating for a moment, she picked it up.
What if something happened to a family member and they borrowed someone else’s phone to call her?
That's what she thought at the time, but when the call was connected, she heard a drunken male voice: "Okay, do you still remember me?"
Zhen Hao's heart skipped a beat, a terrifying guess forming in his mind, and he blurted out those two words: "Lin...Mian?"
The boy's voice suddenly became excited: "Okay, you can actually tell it's me right away? I'm so happy, okay!"
Zhen Hao held the phone, her heart beating faster and faster. It was as if she was back in junior high school when Lin Hai asked about Lin Mian's whereabouts. Nervousness and panic gradually took over her heart: "What do you want to talk to me about?"
In fact, she wanted to ask the other party why he had her mobile phone number, but then she thought that this question was meaningless.
"Can't I just call you if there's nothing else?" Lin Mian's voice was filled with joy. "We haven't contacted each other for a long time. I was so happy today that I suddenly wanted to call you. Well, you know what? I just closed a deal for a pretty big sum. I'm so happy, and I wanted to find someone to share my joy with, so I thought of you."
"Ah..." Zhen Hao's life was filled with housework and study. She couldn't quite understand his happiness, but she still said politely, "Congratulations."
"Thank you, okay." Lin Mian seemed to have found a quiet place. The original noise from his side faded away, and only his anxious breathing could be heard. "Because of your congratulations, my efforts have become more meaningful."
"Haha." Zhen Hao didn't know what to say and could only laugh dryly.
Lin Mian didn't mind her silence and continued to talk about his own things with great enthusiasm: "Actually, I wanted to call you a long time ago, but I didn't dare. I was afraid that you still hated me like before. It wasn't until I drank a little today that I mustered up the courage to make this call..."
Zhen Hao listened to him silently, but in his heart he was calculating the right time to end the call.
He was right, she still hated hearing anything about him.
"Okay, thank you for answering my call and listening to me." Lin Mian drank quite a bit of wine, and his voice still sounded a bit hazy no matter how hard he tried to suppress it. "Okay, I still like it..."
Zhen Hao was afraid of hearing something he didn't want to hear, so he quickly interrupted him: "Student Lin, the lights in our dormitory are about to go out. Why don't you come here first today?"
"Okay, don't hang up, I haven't finished what I want to say." Lin Mian didn't let her hang up.
"But the lights are about to be turned off..." Zhen Hao was telling the truth. The lights in the dormitory were going to be turned off in five minutes.
"Please, don't hang up... Please..." Lin Mian's voice turned sobbing as he spoke, "Can you please go to the corridor and listen to me? Just for a moment, please..."
"We're about to turn off the lights. The dorm manager might arrest us later..."
Zhen Hao's embarrassed words were interrupted by Lin Mian's rough voice: "Zhen Hao, I like you so much, are you treating me like this? You won't even give me a little time?!"
The moment the words fell, both sides became eerily quiet.
Zhen Hao was stunned by his yelling, and when he came to his senses, the hand holding the phone was shaking slightly.
She felt the same fear again as when she faced Lin Hai, and both experiences were brought to her by Lin Mian.
New and old grudges surged into Zhen Hao's heart, and her disgust for Lin Mian increased even more. "Lin Mian, are you too selfish? Why should I give you time just because you like me? I already told you we're going to turn off the lights, don't you understand?"
Words spoken in a moment of anger are often filled with anger. Zhen Hao only realized what he had said after he had finished speaking, and his mind went blank in an instant.
Lin Mian didn't speak immediately, but she could hear his breathing getting heavier, and Zhen Hao's heart was getting heavier. She was anxious to get out of the stalemate, so she forced herself to calm down and said, "I'm about to hang up..."
"Don't hang up!" Lin Mian suddenly yelled, his anger almost turning into a physical object through the phone and stabbing Zhen Hao, and his next words made her feel cold from head to toe.
Lin Mian spoke word by word, gritting his teeth. His voice sounded like it came from hell: "Zhen Hao, if you dare to hang up the phone, I will jump off the rooftop!"
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