Chapter 282: Phone, Call
Leaving Li Jie’s dorm, Li Yan sat alone in the car smoking. At this mont, he didn’t know where to go. Go ho? Zhang Yurong is probably fuming right now, right?
But actually, what he feared the most was not Zhang Yurong being furious. That would an she still cared about him. The worst was her reverting to the previous indifference, that attitude of looking at him like a stranger. Before, he didn’t care and was naturally indifferent. However, after a period of caring, facing that attitude would be a different feeling.
Holding the phone, Li Yan kept scrolling up and down the missed call list. After receiving his ssages, they all called. Only Yue Yao’s got through; the others were missed and now all lined up together.
After pondering for a long ti, he decided to go from easy to difficult!
Zhang Yurong, Wen Qianyi, and Yu Xiaodi found out about each other, and their emotions are likely very heightened right now. Calling them would probably deal a blow and diminish his confidence.
The easiest, without a doubt, was Huang Ying. She is a simple girl and has barely interacted with the others. Tonight, she was the most engrossed in listening to music and also the first to obediently leave.
Having decided, Li Yan dialed Huang Ying’s number, and it was quickly connected on the other end.
"Huang Ying, have you made it ho? Are you alright?" Li Yan summoned his spirits to ask.
Hearing his words, Huang Ying laughed happily, "I’m fine, already ho. How about you? Just got off work? It’s late, go and rest!"
"Tonight... I’m really sorry." Hearing her tone, she still seed happy tonight. Li Yan couldn’t bear to let her have a sleepless night and only apologized without giving reasons.
"It’s alright! I was really happy tonight, I should thank you. When do you have ti... I’ll cook for you."
Li Yan wasn’t in the mood for this right now! "Okay, sure. But you just started your classes, focus on them first. There’s plenty of ti in the future."
"Hmm... Are you working tomorrow?" If he took leave on Friday because of the tickets, then he should be going back to work now, right?
Li Yan chuckled, "I should be! Make sure to rest well, you’ve never been late!"
"Okay."
After a few more words, Li Yan finally hung up.
Work tomorrow? Not to ntion if Yurong will transfer him to another branch in a rage. Even if everything is normal, how would he face Wen Qianyi?
Since knowing Wen Qianyi, most of the ti, he saw her with a smiling face. Whether others thought it was optimism or a fake professional smile, it was always a comfortable interaction with her. Now... she’s probably angry, and she won’t show him a friendly face tomorrow.
He was just thinking about calling Hai Fu when she called first.
"Finished? Are you ho?"
"Uh... on the road, what about you?"
"I’ve been ho for a while, showered and about to sleep."
"That’s good, anyway I’m really sorry about tonight."
"What are you saying? Although you didn’t spend much ti with tonight, I ca for the concert, not chat with you, and overall it was nice. It made feel much younger..."
Hearing Hai Fu’s relaxed tone, Li Yan felt a bit relieved. "Does it really have that effect? Next ti, I’ll take you to a concert of so young idols, scream and shout with the teenage girls. You might feel like you’re a teenager too."
"Heh... that’s okay. I’ll just scare those young girls."
"For sure, just raise your head and puff your chest, let them see what coconut milk and papaya milk are, feeling the ’seven feet grandeur,’ won’t they feel inferior?"
"Bah! You little perv..."
"Perv or not, wolf or not, can we drop the ’little’?" Li Yan lightened up and teased her.
"You are a little perv, not convinced?" Hai Fu had been quite influenced by him. She could be very relaxed with him, especially now over the phone, showing no signs of her stern director self.
"Eh... see, I’m just a lonely wolf now."
"Alright, I’m going to sleep now." Being able to casually talk like this was a rare experience and joy for Hai Fu. Usually, it was all seriousness. But considering Li Yan was on the road, chatting like this was not too safe.
"Alright, but before you sleep, can you do a favor, do one thing for ?"
Hearing Li Yan’s serious tone, Hai Fu beca earnest, "What is it?"
"Grab a handful of coconuts and papayas for , I miss them."
Hai Fu was stunned, then, recalling what he said earlier, understood what coconuts and papayas referred to, and imdiately scolded: "Disgusting... they don’t miss you at all!" Then she chuckled softly, "Who told a certain soone to act righteous this morning?"
"..."
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After the warmth from Huang Ying and the ambiguity from Hai Fu, Li Yan’s confidence had sowhat returned, and his emotions had cald down. He started his car and headed towards S University, then dialed Wen Qianyi’s number.
Yes, he decided to rush over to see Yu Xiao Di, fearing she might act impulsively and do sothing irrational. Wen Qianyi is more mature, so even if he went to her, she might not et him; better to call first. As for ho... you can run away from the monk, but not the temple!
"Sorry, the number you have dialed is currently switched off..."
It seed like Wen Qianyi expected him to call and turned off her phone directly. This made Li Yan a bit helpless, so he decided to talk to her when they were at work tomorrow.
He pushed the speed to the maximum. At this late hour, the road wasn’t too busy, allowing him to reach S University in the shortest ti.
He went directly under the dormitory building he had visited before, intending to go straight upstairs. However, the aunt who managed the building didn’t let him enter, saying it was too late and n weren’t allowed into the won’s dorm at this hour. The formidable aunt even shouted, "Girls—Ti to see the visitors off!" reminding the remaining boys upstairs to leave.
Li Yan was a bit speechless. He couldn’t possibly force his way in, as that would make Yu Xiao Di even more embarrassed, surrounded by countless onlookers.
Helplessly, he could only send a ssage to Yu Xiao Di downstairs, telling her he was below and asking her to co down for a face-to-face talk.
Unfortunately, after sending the ssage, it seed to sink like a stone, with no feedback indicating it reached her. He hurriedly tried calling her and... it was switched off again!
We agreed on this!
Switched off? You think I wouldn’t dare to shout?
But even opening his mouth, it was indeed hard to yell out!
A boy of sixteen might have so innocence and be shy to shout; now at twenty-eight, an old hand definitely has a thicker skin. But he’d never had such an experience before; even in his youth, he had never called out to girls from a dorm window, and now basically being an uncle, playing this move was a bit undignified!
Li Yan lowered his head, hesitated, smoked a cigarette, and paced around under the watchful eyes of the building manager aunt.
He recalled the two boys he encountered here last ti; they could be carefree for a small inco and experience. He, for the girl he likes, without studying here, what’s there to be embarrassed about?
Yu Xiao Di could stand up for him, argue with her friends; fall out with her classmates; confront her bygone tutor... What have I done for her?
When she was with , she was always so calm, so straightforward, never feeling embarrassed even when others mocked an older man. Should I feel embarrassed to call her once?
Thinking of this, Li Yan shafully threw away the cigarette butt and then looked up at their dormitory, shouting from below, "XXX dormitory! Co out!"
He still couldn’t fully let go! Of course, directly calling out Yu Xiao Di’s na and letting everyone know he was looking for her might not be too good for her.
Li Yan’s original intention was for the girls in their dormitory to hear and co out to notify her; or for Yu Xiao Di herself to hear and co out. But this thod, as his shout was loud enough for them to hear, made people feel like it was a challenge!
In an instant, even before anyone from Yu Xiao Di’s dormitory ca out, other buildings and dormitories’ girls were already poking their heads out, glancing at the boy shouting below; the boys who were just shooed out by the ’girls, see the visitors off,’ hadn’t walked far, also gazed in surprise; the building manager aunt seed to see Li Yan as the bad person coming in bad faith, already prepared to charge with a broom in her left hand, and a mop in her right, ready to take down a rogue.
Li Yan didn’t expect his low-key shout to have more impact than ’Ahn Hong, I love you,’ attracting so many girls to watch, leaving him quite embarrassed. What was so amusing?
Fortunately, he was downstairs, and it was night, with no worry of showing a red face, nor of them seeing clearly what he looked like.
Girls from Yu Xiao Di’s dormitory ca out; they quickly recognized Li Yan and knew he was definitely there for Yu Xiao Di. They just didn’t know what problem there was and didn’t know how Li Yan would address them. Only during last night’s barbecue when Ling Wuai led the chant with "Coach Brother," a few started chattering away.
Little Xun MM originally wasn’t fond of Li Yan and seeing him with an apparently unfriendly attitude towards Yu Xiao Di, imdiately put on airs up there, ’sternly’ saying: "Hey old rascal! What do you want with us?!"
Trying hard to mimic ancient speech but lacking both a general’s bravado and green forest bandit’s manner, just with a girl’s coyness, calling him an old rascal made all the girls who heard laugh uproariously. An entire building of girls laughing together was quite a spectacle, their voices quite loud.
Li Yan braced himself and continued, "I know you’re Xiao Xun. Has she co back? I’m looking for her!"
Of course, they all knew he was looking for Xiao Di. Xiao Xun, having already incited collective laughter, was about to continue teasing him. However, Lu Min, kind-hearted and aware of their situation, herself an experienced girlfriend, figured they were in a spat. She then told her from above, "She’s not back! Maybe she went ho!"
"Thanks!"
"Uncle, who are you looking for? How about ?"
"Brother, she’s not here. We have plenty in our dorm!"
"Sir, co on up!"
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The girls at this age were quite open when playing around, and since it was their ho ground, so many gathered to watch one person. Quite a few dared to tease Li Yan boldly, forcing him to make an escape under the hawk-eyed scrutiny of the mop-wielding aunt. (Over a month without a recomndation, not sure how long it will last without one, the only place left for Mixed to show a little face is in the urban classifications monthly pass, please give a monthly pass for support, Old Lai thanks you!) (To be continued, to know what happens next, please log on to qidian, with more Chapters to support the author and genuine reading!)
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