Stars In His Eyes
Chapter 610: Have You Fallen for Me 3_1

Chapter 610: Chapter 610: Have You Fallen for Me 3_1

People are not afraid of waiting, yet what they dread most is the kind of wait that seems to have no end, with no knowing when it might finally conclude.

He Teng was far more heartless towards her than she had imagined. Or more precisely, when He Teng showed her a ruthless side, it hurt her far more deeply than she had expected.

Looking back, when she was still with the He Family, although He Teng would scold her with a stern face, it was nothing when compared to the anxiety she felt now, waiting for him at the military base an entire afternoon.

Vehicles from the base were coming out, their headlights illuminating the exit. They made a turn and shone upon Zhilan, who was squatting on the side of the road, looking pitiable.

When Zhilan looked up, she saw Lan Li sitting inside the car. Realizing it wasn’t He Teng, she lowered her gaze again and continued to look at the grass at her feet.

Due to a blind spot, Lan Li did not see Zhilan sitting by the road initially. So, he concluded that she would not have waited this long and must have already left the military base.

Not until the car had left the base and he glanced casually in the rearview mirror did he finally get a start: in the mirror, there was a woman sitting on a stone by the road, her head down.

Stopping the car, Lan Li got out, raised his steps and walked towards Zhilan. "Get in the car. I’m heading to town. I can drop you off at the train station on my way."

"You can go yourself." Zhilan replied in a muffled voice without raising her head. However, her voice clearly showed a hint of choking back tears.

"He Teng isn’t coming out to pick you up. Are you planning to spend the night here?" Lan Li frowned.

"If he could bear it, I’d stay overnight here. There is a soldier on duty at the gate all the time, I won’t be afraid!" Stubborn as she was, she kept biting her lip. In reality, her head hung low, her eyes already red from crying.

Perhaps, it was because she felt wronged, or perhaps it was because of disappointment.

"As you wish then." Lan Li did not usually meddle in other people’s affairs. He did not understand why he tried to persuade Zhilan in the first place. But given that his persuasion failed, he simply got back into his car and drove away from the base gate.

Sitting in the car, he watched as the small silhouette in the rear-view mirror shrunk further and further. He managed to drive a few hundred meters away, but then he stopped again, took out his mobile phone and called He Teng in his office.

After dinner, He Teng returned to his office. Although he did not mention Zhilan all afternoon while discussing business matters, Lan Li could tell that He Teng was still preoccupied with her.

"Zhilan is still at the base gate. I couldn’t persuade her to leave. It’s getting dark and she has been waiting for you all afternoon without having supper. Why don’t you go and bring her in? Isn’t it better to take her back tomorrow?"

"She’s still there?" There was a hint of surprise in He Teng’s voice. Zhilan had always had a fiery temper, He had assumed that if he didn’t go out to meet her, she would get angry and leave after a few minutes. He didn’t expect that she would stay and wait until now.

"If you don’t go there, I bet she would definitely wait for you the whole night." As Lan Li spoke, he paused for a while before continuing, "He Teng, even though I haven’t witnessed how Ding Jinshi waited for me back then, when I see Zhilan sitting on that little stone by the road with her head bowed down, I can’t help but think, did Ding Jinshi wait for me for a whole night like this at the military base? He Teng, don’t repeat the mistake I made."