Her gaze swept over the phone screen for a mont and then suddenly froze.
Tang Yige could hardly believe her eyes.
Was this a call from a "ghost"?!
The phone continued to vibrate in her hand.
Tang Yige took several deep breaths and answered, "Hello."
About thirty seconds passed with no sound from the phone.
Tang Yige frowned suspiciously, looked at the phone, seeing it was still connected, she put it back to her ear and said, pursing her lips, "If you don’t say anything, I’ll hang up."
About three seconds later, there was a cold snort from the phone.
Tang Yige’s mouth twitched slightly, but she stayed silent.
"Honestly, seeing take the initiative to call you, aren’t you feeling very excited?" soone said.
"..." She was speechless for several seconds and couldn’t say a word.
Tang Yige wiped the cold sweat from her forehead, got out of bed, and walked towards the balcony, "Do your friends know you’re this narcissistic?"
"Tang Yige, when can you be a little more honest and not so self-deceiving," Rong Sinan said darkly.
"Sorry, what I dislike most is self-deception," Yige said as she reached the balcony, turned around, and leaned softly against the railing, with a low hum.
"Even using such sneaky and despicable thods like drugging, Tang Yige, tell how much you wanted to get with ?!"
"..." Tang Yige’s face suddenly turned white, "If you’re calling in the middle of the night just to humiliate , then sorry, I’m not that cheap, goodbye!"
After saying this, Tang Yige was about to hang up the phone.
"Tang Yige."
Rong Sinan’s voice was deep.
Tang Yige paused with the phone away from her ear.
"Tang Yige."
He called her again.
Tang Yige tightened her grip on the phone, "What do you want to say?"
"Do you have sincerity?" he chuckled softly.
He was laughing, but Tang Yige could hear a hint of lancholy.
With a slight frown, Tang Yige spoke quietly, "Does it matter whether I have sincerity?"
He was asking if she had sincerity?
All of Tang Yige’s sincerity had been given to Rong Sinan, yet he was still asking if she had sincerity!
So, Tang Yige, after all these years, perhaps your sincerity was sothing he never cared about!
Tang Yige laughed at herself and lowered her long eyelashes.
"Co to the hotel tomorrow, we need to talk."
After a long silence, he said.
His voice was noticeably hoarse, as if he had just been smoking.
Tang Yige furrowed her brows tightly.
She rembered.
A few days ago, she had seen him in the restroom at the hotel restaurant, with a cigarette in his hand.
Later, when he pressed her against the wall, she also slled a strong tobacco scent on him.
The degree of that tobacco sll couldn’t have been developed overnight.
If he had been smoking all this ti, she might not think much of it.
But he used to not touch cigarettes at all!
"When did you start smoking?"
Before she realized what she was saying, Tang Yige already let the words slip.
Then.
Silence fell on both sides!
Tang Yige realized what she had said, annoyed, she put her hand on her forehead, her cheeks slightly flushed.
She expected to hear certain sarcastic and sneering comnts, and Tang Yige had braced herself to "face" them.
However...
"And you, when did you start smoking?" Rong Sinan asked hoarsely.
She?
Tang Yige was stunned.
The first ti she smoked, was she seventeen or eighteen...?
Back then.
She wasn’t as delicate and frail as Tang Ruan.
Instead, she liked hanging out with Rong Mochen and the others.
Once, they were smoking together by the school’s back wall. She skipped class, climbing over the wall, only to fall disgracefully in front of them.
Two of them saw Tang Yige fall and couldn’t get up, squatted beside her with cigarettes, mocked her, and didn’t even offer a hand.
Then it was Lei Yicheng who dragged her up from the ground.
She rubbed her aching arm and stared at the few standing by the wall smoking, baffled.
What’s so good about smoking? It’s quite irritating, isn’t it?
It was that mont of curiosity, so while Lei Yicheng wasn’t paying attention, she snatched the cigarette from his lips, put it in her mouth, and glanced at them with a laugh, took a few puffs.
And then...
She nearly coughed her lungs out!
That day, Tang Yige was mocked by the boys twice in a row.
Now, whenever she recalls the foolish and nonsensical things she did in her youth, Tang Yige can’t help but smile a little.
"Tang Yige."
The voice from the phone brought Tang Yige back to her thoughts.
"I’ll wait for you at the hotel tomorrow," Rong Sinan said.
"..." Tang Yige was stunned.
Tonight, it was the second ti he said those words.
"Is there anything you can’t say over the phone?" Tang Yige said lightly.
"Yeah."
He said.
Hearing him answer her so seriously, for a mont, Yige felt like he was going to tell her sothing particularly important.
She thought about it and then said, "Okay. I’ll co to see you tomorrow."
"I’ll wait for you," he said.
"..." Yige’s ears turned a little red as she hung up the phone.
...
Tang Yige stood on the balcony, feeling her cheeks weren’t as hot before turning around to walk inside the room.
But at this mont.
The phone vibrated in her hand again.
Looking down at the phone, her gaze swept over the phone screen, Tang Yige was slightly startled, and answered the call, "Mom."
"Yige, what should we do, Yige?" Zhou Xueran’s extrely helpless and distraught voice ca through the phone.
Tang Yige stood up straight, her voice tight, "Mom, did sothing happen to Dad?"
"It’s not your dad, it’s your sister," Zhou Xueran choked.
"...Tang Ruan?"
Surprised for a mont, Tang Yige’s hanging heart settled, her voice beca calm, "What happened to her?"
"She was detained at the airport," Zhou Xueran said.
Tang Yige’s eyes moved slightly, "What’s going on?"
"They said your sister was carrying contraband, so they detained her at the airport for inspection. It’s been three or four hours now. She hasn’t been released yet," Zhou Xueran said anxiously.
Tang Yige lowered her eyes.
She’s almost certain Tang Ruan didn’t carry any contraband, soone just doesn’t want her to leave the country.
Besides Rong Mochen, who else could it be?
Until now, Tang Yige never thought of Rong Sinan.
Because she felt Rong Sinan had no reason to do so.
In fact, he might be hoping Tang Ruan goes abroad to find him!
So Yige determined that it was Rong Mochen who knew Tang Ruan was planning to go to Paris to ask Rong Sinan for help and had the airport staff use this excuse to detain Tang Ruan at the airport.
"Yige, what should we do now? Your sister is detained at the airport, who will go find Sinan?" Zhou Xueran couldn’t wait any longer.
Tang Yige thought of the promise she had made to et Rong Sinan at the hotel tomorrow and paused, then said to Zhou Xueran, "I’ll go find Rong Sinan."
"You?" Zhou Xueran’s voice was filled with doubt.
After all, everyone in Z City knew that Rong Sinan despised Tang Yige.
If she went to ask Rong Sinan for help, would it work?
Tang Yige understood Zhou Xueran’s concerns, and with a bitter smile, she said, "Mom, aside from , do you have anyone else to choose? If so, let them go."
"Mom has no other choice, just go. Yige, when you et Sinan, speak nicely. No matter what he says, go along with him. To save your dad, don’t do anything to upset Sinan, okay?" Zhou Xueran reminded her with worry.
It’s as if Tang Yige wasn’t going to ask Rong Sinan for help, but to cause trouble for the Tang family.
Tang Yige closed her eyes, "Okay. I’ll listen to you. I’ll go along with him, not make him angry, and not do anything to upset him. If he wants to bark like a dog, I’ll bark like a dog. I’ll do anything he asks. Okay, Mom, does that work?"
"...Yige." Zhou Xueran cried, "Do you have to say things this way to cut my heart? Do you want Mom to die now?"
Tang Yige clenched her fist, inhaling, "Mom, you say I’m hurting your heart, then what about mine? Isn’t my heart a heart, is it a stone?"
"Yige..."
"Mom, rest assured, I’ll go to Rong Sinan first thing in the morning. No matter what thod or the cost, I’ll make him get Dad out."
Without waiting for Zhou Xueran to respond, Tang Yige finished speaking all at once and hung up the phone.
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