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Chapter 74 - 74 72 Have Two Drinks
Chapter 74 - 74 72 Have Two Drinks
?Chapter 74: Chapter 72 Have Two Drinks Chapter 74: Chapter 72 Have Two Drinks After a silent moment between the two of them, Lu Jingyan was about to hang up when Sheng Xian stopped her, “Lu Jingyan.”
“Hmm?”
“Who were you planning to call?”
When Sheng Xian called her name, his tone was a bit serious, and Lu Jingyan thought he had something important to say.
Who knew that after being fully attentive, all she would await was such an insignificant question.
And it had to be the question she least wanted to hear.
She had lied casually, and yet he took it seriously.
Lu Jingyan could only continue the lie, “Chen Kai.”
Sheng Xian, “What do you need him for so late?”
Lu Jingyan blinked, thinking she had misheard.
Since when had Professor Sheng become so meddlesome?
If she had known he would delve so deep, she would have lied about having work with a colleague from the beginning.
Lu Jingyan had to plow ahead with the lie, “Oh, nothing much, just wanted to see where he was, to have a couple of drinks with him.”
Lu Jingyan didn’t know if it was her imagination, but she thought she heard a very low sneer coming from the other end of the phone.
It was so fleeting that before she could confirm it, it had gone quiet on the other end.
After two seconds, Sheng Xian’s voice came through, “Apart from drinking, is there anything else?”
The tone of Sheng Xian seemed quite normal at first listen, but upon closer pondering, Lu Jingyan always felt like there was a hint of gunpowder laced within the words.
Unable to see Sheng Xian’s expressions through the phone, Lu Jingyan couldn’t be sure if her feeling was right or wrong.
She hadn’t planned to meet Chen Kai anyway, so she went along with Sheng Xian’s line, “What else could I have with him? Other than eating and drinking, it’s just drinking and eating.”
Sheng Xian paused for a while on the other end, then asked, “Is it necessary to see him?”
Lu Jingyan couldn’t make sense of what Professor Sheng meant. It sounded like a warning, but also not quite, and she could distinctly feel the gunpowder aroma getting stronger, “It’s not like that, I don’t have anything that necessitates seeing him.”
As she said this, Lu Jingyan’s flirty nature kicked in, “If I really had to meet someone necessarily, it would definitely be you, brother.”
Lu Jingyan felt she was being overly sensitive tonight; she actually felt that right after she said those words, the gunpowder scent on the phone vanished.
Realizing she was overthinking, Lu Jingyan couldn’t help but mock herself in her heart.
Lu Jingyan, look at you go, imagining Professor Sheng’s emotions through the phone, and not just any fiction, but crafting a whole narrative, even fabricating the ebbs and flows of emotional changes.
After self-deprecating for a moment, and seeing that Sheng Xian had said nothing on the other end, she added, “So, if there’s nothing else, shall I hang up?”
“How, uh…” Sheng Xian hastily retracted the words that were about to leave his lips.
What was going on with him?
She was very close with Chen Kai, something he had long been aware of, so why had he suddenly started to seize on this kind of thing?
And he had almost let slip without thinking, “How, are you eager to find Chen Kai?”
Lu Jingyan didn’t quite understand what his three words meant, “What did you say?”
Sheng Xian was about to reply “nothing,” but he stopped himself.
It was quiet for a few seconds before he said, “If it’s not crucial to see Chen Kai, then come see me.”
Lu Jingyan, “Huh? Huh?”
This was the first time Professor Sheng had taken the initiative to ask to see her.
Lu Jingyan held the phone in front of her, confirming that the person calling her was indeed Sheng Xian, and she couldn’t help but utter another “Huh?”
Sheng Xian said in a light tone, “About Auntie Sun’s daughter’s situation, didn’t I help you take care of it? Shouldn’t you come take me out for a couple of drinks?”
Lu Jingyan, “…”
…
Lu Jingyan, who had no plans to go out today, hailed a car twenty minutes later.
Meanwhile.
Sheng Xian, who also had no plans to step out, came out of the building, braving the chilly night wind, and stopped a taxi at the entrance of the residential complex.
Sitting in the taxi, Sheng Xian pressed his brow, sighing softly.
In order not to let her go find Chen Kai, he had actually racked his brains to bring up the matter of Auntie Sun’s daughter.
The person who had not asked for thanks at the beginning was him, and now he was the one coaxing someone out for drinks.
Sheng Xian sighed once more.
Actually, at first, he didn’t really want to know who she intended to call.
The sound of her voice on the phone had been off, sounding muffled, as if she was in a very bad mood.
She didn’t say much, just a “hmm” and a “wrong number.”
For some reason, his heart felt pricked by tiny needles, stirring a trace of pain.
He wasn’t sure what she had gone through, but he could feel that she was not as happy and splendid as she seemed.
There were too many things about her he couldn’t see through.
Like why she had become so changed in temperament.
Like the night he took her home, what had she encountered that left her so frightened.
Like why she, so kind-hearted, wouldn’t let others see her kindness.
Like why she seemed to envy Auntie Sun’s daughter for having a mother like Auntie Sun.