After resolving his relationship with Yu Ranran, Dai Manxing finally felt relieved.
At eight o'clock that evening, she received a call from an unknown number.
Dai Manxing didn't recognize the person and hung up without thinking.
After the phone was silent for a while, a string of text messages was sent.
"Xingxing, I'm your mother."
Dai Manxing looked at the text message, raised his eyebrows slightly, and tapped on his phone without interest, not intending to reply.
But the next moment the phone rang again.
This time she answered.
"Hello? Who is this?"
She took off her slippers and lay down on the bed.
"Xingxing, it's mom."
A middle-aged woman's voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Oh~Ms. Yu, what's going on?"
"Xingxing, what's your name?"
Yu's mother, who had long been accustomed to the life of a rich wife, was a little angry at Dai Manxing's attitude.
"Come on, we haven't talked in decades. You don't expect me to call you mother, do you?"
Dai Manxing didn't want to talk anymore when she heard Yu's mother's condescending tone. She had already let go of the blood relationship anyway.
"What's the matter? Tell me now. I don't want us to be in touch again."
"Xingxing, Mom had no choice back then. Can you forgive me?"
"I'm hanging up."
Dai Manxing looked at Yu's mother who was chattering away instead of talking about business, and coldly ordered her to leave.
She answered the call because she was her biological mother and she wasn't being too extreme. It might have been okay to cry to her ten years ago, but now it's impossible.
"Hey! Your uncle Li's daughter likes the song you sing. Can you spare some time for us to meet?"
"What does this have to do with me?"
Dai Manxing fiddled with her nails, her tone very impatient.
"Xingxing, I'm begging you. Apart from choosing to take Ranran away that year, I've never done anything wrong to you."
Dai Manxing almost laughed out of anger when she heard this. In fact, this was not what made her most sad. What made her most sad was that from that day on, Yu's mother seemed to have disappeared and never appeared again.
"Well, since you gave birth to me, I can go and see you, but don't contact me anymore."
"...good."
Yu's mother thought about it and agreed.
Anyway, the Li family is very rich and she can live a good life even without relying on Dai Manxing.
"Tomorrow afternoon at 1:00, Jinxuan Pavilion, is that ok?"
Yu's mother was so anxious because she heard the little girl at home clamoring to see Dai Manxing a few days ago.
At that time, she didn't know that Dai Manxing might be her daughter, so she didn't say anything. But after finding out the news today, seeing her little daughter still crying and wanting to see Dai Manxing, she told Father Li that she was her eldest daughter, and she had no status in that family. If she could make her little daughter happy this time, she would feel much better.
Therefore, she could not fail. She could not contact him at all. Anyway, she was still worried that Dai Manxing would ask her for money.
How much money can I make from just singing a few songs? I don’t even know how to maintain a good relationship with her.
Yu's mother looked at the hung up phone with contempt in her heart.
Dai Manxing threw her phone aside in annoyance and lay on the bed with her face covered.
After staring at the top of her head for a long time, she touched her phone and called Shen Ling.
"Manxing, what's going on?"
Shen Ling, who was still working overtime, looked at Dai Manxing's call, took off his glasses, leaned back in his chair, pinched his brows and asked.
"Nothing... just a little bored."
She stared at the chandelier above her head and spoke casually.
"...because of what happened this afternoon."
Shen Ling asked affirmatively, turning the pen in his hand.
"How do you know?"
Dai Manxing blinked and raised her hand to silently wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes.
It's not worth shedding tears for these people.
"Guess."
“That doctor Shen is really amazing.”
“Heh~”
When Shen Ling heard Dai Manxing's sincere praise, she inexplicably thought of what she had said before.
"It's not very good~"
"Doctor Shen, what are you laughing at? I'm praising you!"
"Sorry to think of something funny."
Chen Ling listened to the angry Dai Manxing and restrained his smile.
"Need to talk? I won't charge you this time."
"Okay, Dr. Shen."
Dai Manxing was not as sad as before after Chen Ling's interruption, and quickly agreed after hearing this.
"Doctor Shen, what are you doing?"
She sat up with the phone tucked between her neck, chatting while she pulled out a notebook from a drawer and began scribbling.
"Look at the documents."
"Oh~ Doctor Shen is so hardworking. Remember to go to bed early and don't stay up late."
Dai Manxing thought about the two times she stayed up late and encountered Shen Ling's thoughtful advice.
Shen Ling waited for a long time without saying anything, but Dai Manxing didn't speak. Instead, he heard the sound of rustling writing.
He looked at the clock on the table and was about to ask when he heard the sound of strumming a guitar and Dai Manxing.
Although it was just a light hum, he could feel the loneliness and sadness in the voice.
"Doctor Shen, do you want to sit in on my creation? Of course, you can hang up if you don't like it."
Dai Manxing put the phone on the table with the hands-free mode on. He kept writing for a while before he remembered that the phone was still connected. He looked up at the phone that was still talking, and after saying that, he immersed himself in his own spiritual world again.
Although her eyes were a little wet, her gaze was focused.
"You are forced to do so, and I am helpless."
"Embracing each other in the shade on a sunny day, two dead leaves blossom into new flowers."
"It turns out that we should have met earlier, and it turns out that we should have separated earlier..."
For some reason, Shen Ling didn't hang up the phone. Instead, he put on headphones, listened to the occasional humming from the other side of the phone, and immersed himself in his work.
The two of them became so focused that they gradually forgot they were still on the phone.
The call ended with Dai Manxing's phone running out of battery.
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