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Chapter 60 - 60 60 As Long As I Call You Come to Help
Chapter 60 - 60 60 As Long As I Call You Come to Help
?Chapter 60: Chapter 60 As Long As I Call You Come to Help Chapter 60: Chapter 60 As Long As I Call You Come to Help His tone when he said those words wasn’t much different from usual, and it was even a bit more indifferent, as if it didn’t matter whether he said them or not.
But Lu Jingyan’s ears tingled as if electrified, numb and slightly burning.
Lu Jingyan jerked the phone away from her ear as if startled, noticing her heartbeat was a bit fast, thumping actively without end.
Lu Jingyan swallowed, then asked half-heartedly, “So, you’ll help as soon as I call you?”
“Mhm.”
“And you’ll keep it a secret for me?”
“Mhm.”
“…”
Lu Jingyan didn’t know what to say anymore.
Usually, it was no burden at all for her to call him “brother,” but for some reason, she just couldn’t bring herself to say it now.
Sheng Xian was silent on the other end of the phone.
The room at night was silent as a grave.
Through the phone, Lu Jingyan could faintly hear the occasional short honk of a car horn coming from Sheng Xian’s side.
She held the phone in silence for a while, eyes closed, as if a knife were held to her throat, forcing herself to utter two words, “Brother.”
She said it stiffly.
After speaking, there was an inexplicable sense of shame.
Although she didn’t know where she, an old hand in the world, got the face to talk about shame.
Without waiting for Sheng Xian to respond, she cleared her throat, “I was taking a shower and suddenly ran out to call you. I’m hanging up.”
Sheng Xian made another “mhm” sound.
Lu Jingyan didn’t say anything else, took the phone from her ear, pressed the hang-up button, and threw it onto the bed as if it were a hot potato, then turned around and dove back into the bathroom.
Leaning against the bathroom door, Lu Jingyan looked up and saw her own ears in the mirror in front of her.
…They were a bit red.
She opened her mouth, cursed silently at the bottom of her heart after two seconds.
Damn it, what was wrong with her?
How did she suddenly become so bashful?
If anyone saw this, she, Lu Jingyan, would have to forget about mixing in the scumbags’ circle in the future.
No, Professor Sheng didn’t say anything, just made her call him “brother,” so why did she turn out like this?
Had she recently washed her hands of dealing with those scumbags, so her resistance to men had weakened?
But even so, it shouldn’t have diminished to the point of resembling a clueless, naive and sweet fool with budding feelings.
…
After returning home, Sheng Xian took a shower and came out, holding his phone and sent a message to his assistant to compile the latest news about Mrs. Sun’s daughter’s public opinion case and send it to him.
The assistant worked efficiently; in about ten minutes, he sent a document, followed by a message, “Professor Sheng, why are you suddenly interested in this kind of public opinion case?”
Sheng Xian: “I’m not interested, I’m taking it.”
Assistant: “Whoa! Why are you suddenly taking on such a minor case?”
“On someone’s behalf.”
“Who?” In the assistant’s understanding, small dispute cases really didn’t need to be handled by Sheng Xian, “Could it be that this case involves one of your relatives?”
Relatives…
Sheng Xian paused for two seconds, “You could say that.”
The assistant always had a lot to say, and sent another voice message, asking a heap of questions.
Sheng Xian listened to the first few seconds, then put the phone aside and opened the document that had just been transferred to the computer.
After understanding the situation, Sheng Xian checked the online public opinion trends. By the time he finished, it was past midnight.
He turned off the lights in the study, returned to the bedroom, and lay in bed, but found it a bit difficult to fall asleep. He had come home that afternoon but then had come down from upstairs and walked around the parking garage to come out through the building next door.
He stood behind the flower bed; she was unaware of him the whole time, completely immersed in her own dilemma. He thought something serious had happened to her, only to realize in the end that it was something completely unrelated to him.
He recalled the domestic violence divorce case he had just concluded a couple of days ago. At that time, she had firmly refused to help the client in person, but then stealthily sent the evidence anonymously to his client.
Why did she do that?
She could have easily earned others’ gratitude, yet she chose to make people think she was cold-hearted and emotionless.
Even helping someone made her hesitant.
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