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Chapter 267 - Chapter 267 267 assists

Chapter 267: 267 assists Chapter 267: 267 assists That night, Ziqi followed Old Chen home, and by the time they got there, it was already past midnight. Along the way, a new branch had encountered some issues, prompting a call to Old Chen, who had no choice but to handle the matter, causing a delay of several hours.

Upon entering the house, Ziqi let out a yawn and said, “I’m sleepy, I’m going to bed.”

Old Chen put away the keys and, while changing shoes, asked, “Are you hungry? Should I cook you some noodles?”

Hearing the word “noodles,” Ziqi’s first impulse was to agree, but then she quickly remembered that it wasn’t Chen Xu speaking. Annoyed, she said, “No need,” and then entered her room, closing the door behind her.

Ah, if Chen Xu had been here, he surely would have been nagging again.

She grumbled to herself. Chen Xu had already scolded her several times before, telling her not to be so rude to her own dad.

This guy, can’t even sort out his own issues, yet he’s always meddling in others’.

She tossed whatever was in her hand aside, sat on the bed, and was just about to take out her phone when there was a knock on the door. It opened, and her father’s head peeked in, saying, “Or maybe, I could order some takeout for you? How about barbecue or crawfish?”

Ziqi glared at him and said, “Really, it’s not necessary. I’m not hungry.”

“Not hungry?”

Ziqi shook her head, “Just tired.”

“Alright then, you go to sleep.” The door closed softly.

Ziqi felt weary at heart, with her dad needing to be coddled and Chen Xu’s mess waiting for her to clean up.

“Both men, none giving me any peace.”

She shook her head, pulled out her phone, and muttered, “This Chen Xu, so sloppy with his affairs, and now delaying things by three days, by then, it’ll be old news.”

While speaking, she dialed Luo Xiyun’s phone number.

A minute later. No answer, the call ended automatically.

“Asleep? Or deliberately not taking my calls?”

Undeterred, she kept calling, but the other party wouldn’t pick up. After the fifth missed call, she finally gave up.

“Looks like she’s probably asleep.”

She thought to herself, but she wasn’t easily discouraged. She opened WeChat, selected Luo Xiyun from her contacts, closed her eyes, gathered her emotions, and held down the talk button, speaking in a panicked tone, “Sister Xiyun, it’s bad, Chen Xu has fainted again…”

…

On the other side of the globe, it was noon.

Inside a high-end restaurant with a piano in the middle, a young man in a suit was playing, the gentle music seemingly flowing from the keys.

At a table close to the window, Luo Xiyun and Liu Yumeng were sitting face to face. Before each of them was a steak and a glass of red wine.

Half of the steak was eaten, and only a shallow level of red wine remained in the glass.

Luo Xiyun was looking down, gently slicing the steak with the cutlery, but despite trying several times, she couldn’t cut through the small piece of steak.

Across from her, Liu Yumeng took a small piece of steak soaked in sauce into her mouth, but her eyes were on Xiyun, and next to her, the vibrating phone.

The phone had been ringing for a while, but Xiyun acted as if she didn’t hear it, neither hanging up nor answering, not even glancing at it. She kept her head down, cutting steak.

However, she had been in that position for several minutes. How many minutes does it take to cut a steak?

To Liu Yumeng, it was clear avoidance.

Because of the angle, she couldn’t see the name on the phone, just a “Chen” character. Without a doubt, this call was related to Chen Xu.

At that moment, she felt conflicted. On one hand, she didn’t want her friend to have anything to do with that scumbag, but on the other, she secretly hoped they would get back together…

One time, by chance, she found out that her brother had always had a woman in his heart, which explained why he never pursued Xiyun.

That woman’s name was Yang Jinxia. It was also since then that she started to pay attention to that woman’s information.

Unfortunately, Yang Jinxia was extremely low-profile and had never even appeared in the news. Photos of her couldn’t be found online either. To meet her was to add difficulty upon difficulty.

Liu Yumeng had no idea what she looked like, so naturally, she hadn’t recognized her at all last time at Luo Xiyun’s apartment complex entrance. She had only just found out from Luo Xiyun’s own words.

Although it was hard to believe, she knew Luo Xiyun’s character all too well; she would never spout nonsense about such a thing.

She felt it was such a shame for her brother, the woman of his constant thoughts had ended up with a man like Chen Xu.

Just now, she couldn’t help but entertain a thought uncontrollably, what if Luo Xiyun and Chen Xu got back together. Wouldn’t it mean her brother would have a chance?

It was this conflicted state of mind that led her to react out of character this time; she said nothing and waited for Xiyun to make a decision.

After four or five vibrations, her phone finally stopped.

Luo Xiyun paused in her actions, then set down her knife and fork, picked up a napkin to wipe her mouth, and said, “I’m full…”

Drip, drip…

At that moment, her phone rang again, receiving a WeChat message.

Seeing that she showed no intention of checking her WeChat, Liu Yumeng put down her knife and fork and said, “I’m finished as well, so let’s go.” As she spoke, she raised her hand to call the waiter over, preparing to pay the bill.

Drip, drip, drip…

During that interval, Luo Xiyun’s phone rang repeatedly. Liu Yumeng glanced at her and noticed her hand clenching and releasing, clenching and releasing, and knew she was struggling intensely.

Inwardly, she sighed, as she truly was against the idea of Xiyun getting back with Chen Xu, putting aside questions of personal character. If they had decided to break up in the first place, there must have been irreconcilable differences. Even if they got back together, the issues would still be there, bound to erupt sooner or later, and ultimately they would still break up.

Even if Chen Xu severed ties with Yang Jinxia completely, what of it? As the saying goes, a land’s topography may shift but human nature scarcely changes. Once there’s a first time, there’s bound to be a second, a third…

Humph, men!

With these thoughts, she took out a card from her bag, handed it to the waiter, settled the bill, and left a tip.

After the waiter left, she said, “Let’s go.”

Luo Xiyun stood up, picked up her phone, and just as she did, received another WeChat message. Her hand seemed to flinch, as if scalded, and she let go.

Liu Yumeng, watching all this, couldn’t help but feel sympathy and said, “Maybe there really is an emergency.”

Luo Xiyun did not respond, but picked up her phone again and stood up.

Side by side, they walked towards the exit, and as they neared the door, Liu Yumeng said, “Just have a look. You should also bring closure for yourself. If you don’t look, it will always weigh on your heart. At the most, you can block him after reading it, cutting off all contact completely.”

Upon hearing these words, Luo Xiyun gripped her phone tightly.

Liu Yumeng rented a car as she had a local driver’s license. After they got in the car, Luo Xiyun finally made up her mind and unlocked her phone.

Liu Yumeng saw that there were many messages, all of them long voice recordings.

Luo Xiyun hesitated for a moment, then tapped on the first one. A girl’s crying voice came through, “Sister Xiyun, it’s terrible, Chen Xu has fainted again…”

Liu Yumeng heard it too and looked at her to see her complexion change dramatically.

Luo Xiyun quickly opened the second message, still in the voice of the crying girl, “He was almost better, but within a few days, his complexion grew worse and worse, and later, I discovered that he’s been secretly taking sleeping pills…”

At that moment, Liu Yumeng watched her face turn pale.

“Sister Xiyun, I don’t know what happened between you two, but Chen Xu really loves you. One night, I saw him holding your photo, secretly crying in his room…”

“Just now, he suddenly fainted, and I got so scared. I called your phone but no one answered. Please come see him quickly–the doctor is coming out…”

This was the last message.

After a suffocating silence, Luo Xiyun spoke, “Please, take me to the airport.”

Liu Yumeng’s heart felt a twinge of reluctance, “Are you sure you’ve thought this through?”

“I’ll just take a look.”

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