I Treat You as My Sister, But You Want to be My Wife?!
Chapter 721: Tangled

Chapter 721: Chapter 721: Tangled

Although that’s what I was thinking, deep down I was consoling myself, telling myself it’s okay, that it’s not a big deal. I was just telling the truth, simply asking if he was eating alone or not. That’s not really a problem, right? It’s not like I asked if he had a girlfriend or something that awkward. Oh right, why haven’t I asked about that? What if he does have a girlfriend?

But logically speaking, he probably doesn’t. If he did, Shen Dong would know, and since I haven’t heard anything from Shen Dong, that must mean he doesn’t. If he did, he wouldn’t have added me on WeChat so directly. Tang Yuchan’s mind was a mess of thoughts, which eventually amounted to nothing. She just lay in bed, not sleeping, wanting to check her phone, but then wondering if it was really necessary to have her phone on airplane mode.

Lying in bed, time seemed to crawl by. She wanted to check her phone, and finally, after five minutes, she turned off airplane mode. "Now I can look; whatever the outcome, I can accept it."

Plus, I’ve already heard a woman’s voice; he couldn’t possibly have been sharing a table with someone else, right? So I checked my phone only to find out he hadn’t replied to my message yet. Tang Yuchan felt like a bolt of lightning had struck her from above, chilling her to the core. No reply yet? It’s already been half an hour.

He couldn’t have just missed the message, right? Besides, he said he had finished all his tasks, so how could he not reply to me?

Is it possible that it could be the woman across from him? Seeing him always on his phone, she grabbed it to see if it was me he was chatting with, and then started questioning him, just like I was questioning myself earlier. It seems possible.

Tang Yuchan really wanted to curse out Zhang Tao, calling him a true jerk, and then delete him, but she couldn’t bring herself to do it. Maybe she still needed to wait and see, in case he was busy with something. She kept telling herself to let it go. So she continued to turn airplane mode on and off, repeating the process several times.

Even after doing this for a while, without receiving a reply, her anxiety was palpable. Surely, she couldn’t just send another message to question him again. Instead, she had to wait in silence, the process excruciating. For the first time, she felt that falling in love wasn’t all that great, with the constant waiting for a man’s message.

Expecting a man to reply is just the first step towards bad luck. How have I become like this? Just the other day, I was criticizing Kang Yue for this; oh well, it turns out that every woman becomes the same when faced with these things. I have no right to speak about Kang Yue; it seems I’m just the same, Tang Yuchan felt incredibly sorry for herself.

Zhang Tao followed Shen Dong to a restaurant, only to realize it wasn’t far from where I had just eaten. If only I had known, I would have waited until now to take that video. Sigh, what a miscalculation.

Oh right, I haven’t replied to her message yet. I take out my phone to check, only to find that there’s a message from her from half an hour ago. No way, why did I take so long to reply? She must think I’m up to no good, right?

Then I saw her question about what I was doing. Right, she was asking if I was eating alone. Just now, I was upstairs nibbling on a bun, completely forgetting that in my video, I was eating with a woman. So, in my obliviousness, I simply replied with a "Yes."

Right after replying, Shen Dong passed me the menu. I turned off my phone and started browsing the menu, beginning to order dishes. Tang Yuchan turned her phone off and on again and right then, she received a ping sound. She happily opened her phone to see what he had replied and looked forward to his explanation.

But all she saw was a "Yes." How should I describe it? It’s like being doused with hot water on a freezing day, leaving you completely disoriented.

Yes, what? What does he mean? Is he confirming that he’s eating alone? But who’s that woman with him? Could she really just be someone sharing his table? The more I think about it, the more insecure I feel. Could there really be such a woman?

Heh, as if he has the right to talk to me. If this isn’t a jerk, then what is? He’s just trying to deceive me. So funny. How am I supposed to expose him? No way I can let this go; Tang Yuchan is known for being straightforward.

I took a screenshot of the beginning of the video, circled the woman’s bracelet, and sent it over with a question mark. It was as if I was saying, "This is what you call eating alone? You sure are special, eating all by yourself," and I even added a little ghost emoji at the end.

This time, Tang Yuchan didn’t turn her phone off or on again, nor did she enable airplane mode. She just wanted to see his response. Anyway, this time, any awkwardness was his problem, not hers, so she didn’t care. But after waiting for a long time, there was no reply, no ping sound. She felt like her lungs were going to burst with anger.

Zhang Tao, oblivious to the emotions here, continued to mind his own business, ordering dishes, thinking that Shen Dong was quite nice to take him to such a fancy restaurant. I definitely planned to indulge, so after quite the feast, I quickly checked my phone when a notification arrived.

However, Tang Yuchan had already deleted him because she was extremely angry. Having waited so long without a reply, deep down she felt deceived. She suspected he was looking for an excuse, trying to sweet-talk her. But she was no naive girl; she knew not to trust someone just because she thought they were good at the time.

If she felt deceived by someone and thought they were even slightly bad for her, she would decisively give up on them. She was such a resolute woman, cutting through the mess with speed, convinced she couldn’t keep wallowing like this.

Firmly believing that one must delete the cause of their upset to avoid prolonged sadness, she waited a few more minutes without a message from him and then proceeded to delete and block him.