Chapter 61 Something Happened
At this time, I seemed to have no better way than to pretend to be stupid and not hear anything. I leaned towards the car door to get away from her and said, "I... I suddenly remembered that I have something important to do tonight. If you don't have anything else, can you take me back?"
Hua Jingjing glared and said, "Want to leave? I haven't even settled accounts with you yet! How can I let you go so easily!" I had no choice but to say with a bitter face, "Auntie, I accept whatever you want to settle accounts with, but can you please be quicker? I really have something to do later!"
Hua Jingjing bit her lip and said angrily and resentfully, "Are you so impatient to be with me? Are you going to meet your girlfriend later?"
I remembered that I promised Gu Ruoyan to call her in the evening, so I said, "No, I have other things to do. It has nothing to do with my girlfriend."
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"real!"
Hua Jingjing rolled her eyes and said, "Well, I can let you go tonight and send you back early. But... you have to agree to one condition of mine, otherwise, hmph! I will just leave you here and let you walk back by yourself!"
My head started to hurt again, and I swore in my heart that if I came to this remote place with Hua Jingjing again, I, I would be a fucking coward!
But even if I use my toes to think, I know what Hua Jingjing's conditions are. Even if I have to walk home ten more times, I will never fall for her trick and agree to any of her conditions!
So I shook my head and said, "No! There are no conditions to negotiate . I won't agree to anything you say! If you don't take me back, I'll get off the car. But from now on, our grudges are settled. You don't owe me anything, and I don't owe you anything. You go your way, and I go mine. We will never be related again!" As I said that, I opened the car door, ready to plunge into the cold wind outside and re-enact the tragic drama of being abandoned in the wilderness.
But I didn't make it this time. Hua Jingjing was so angry that she stretched out her hand to grab my arm. She was angry and annoyed, and wanted to laugh, but she shouted helplessly: "Wait a minute! Fine, fine! You are so cruel! Can you say I am afraid of you? I will send you off, I will send you off!"
She was both angry and amused, thinking: I should have known not to tell him that I liked him, but now you are using this to threaten me, Tang Qian, you are really cruel, you really did it! Humph! Now you are so proud, when you fall in love with me and can't leave me, I will see how I will deal with you! I will discipline you!
She immediately thought of seven or eight vicious ways to torture Tang Qian, one of which was quite pornographic. Hua Jingjing blushed at the thought, and was too embarrassed to look at me.
Of course, I didn't know what Hua Jingjing was thinking. I didn't mean to threaten her when I wanted to get off the car and walk back. I just said it out of helplessness and anger. I didn't expect that I hit Hua Jingjing's soft spot. She was afraid that I would ignore her in the future, so she had to hold me back to show her submission.
I took back the foot that had just stepped out of the car door and said, "That's what you said! You can take me back, but there are no conditions!"
"Okay! No conditions! No conditions! I volunteer, is that all right?"
"Why don't you let go of my hand?"
Hua Jingjing had been holding my arms tightly, fearing that I would get off the bus again if she let go. She was a little reluctant to let go, and fantasized about being intimate with me while there was no one here late at night. After hearing what I said, she felt embarrassed and disappointed, and let go of .
She thought for a moment and said to me seriously, "Tang Qian, I won't put forward any conditions. I just want to ask you for one thing, and it's something very easy and simple. I'm serious about you. You can't be so heartless as to not agree to such a small request, right?"
I was alert in my heart and did not fall for her pitiful words. I had to be careful about everything regarding Hua Jingjing, lest I fall into her trap again at any time.
So I didn't say yes, but just said, "What's an easy request? Tell me what you want."
Hua Jingjing said, "My request is that from now on, you can't avoid me on purpose. We can be like ordinary friends, calling each other every once in a while, meeting each other, etc. I will never interfere with your life. I just want you to give me a little time and don't let me get too bored or lonely, okay?"
I pondered, I understood what Hua Jingjing meant, she didn't want me to quit and she couldn't even see me in person, this request was the minimum condition to keep her fantasy, if I agreed to her, I would still have headaches and troubles in the future. But if I didn't agree, it would make me look too stingy and heartless, not even agreeing to such a harmless little thing, wasn't it a bit too extreme?
If it were a few days ago, when I had absolutely no affection for Hua Jingjing, I would have rejected her without hesitation to prevent any future troubles. But after she tried to keep me when I resigned last night, I realized that she valued me, trusted me, and liked me so much. If you say that I don't feel proud or happy, that's a lie. I am also a human being, and I also have vanity. When my vanity is satisfied, I will also be happy and proud. This happiness and pride of mine inevitably made me feel good about Hua Jingjing, and this feeling made me unable to make up my mind to reject her mercilessly. Although reason tells me that I have to reject a woman like Hua Jingjing who is persistent and clingy, and never have any future troubles. But when I saw Hua Jingjing's pitiful expression and eyes that seemed to have a thousand words in them, I couldn't utter the word "no".
After a long while, I sighed and said, "Miss Hua, I can choose not to hide from you, but I want to tell you clearly that it is impossible for us to be together. Don't waste your time. It is meaningless!"
Hua Jingjing smiled and said, "Okay, that's what I want you to say. Don't deliberately avoid seeing me in the future. Don't worry, I won't make it too difficult for you. I will treat you as an ordinary friend and will never pester you! Okay?"
I was skeptical and asked, "Really?"
Hua Jingjing nodded vigorously and said, "Really!" But at the same time she thought to herself, "No way! If I don't tell you this first to steady you, how can I have the chance to make you fall in love with me in the future? I, Hua Jingjing, have never failed before. No matter what means I use, I will definitely win your heart. I will make you love me madly! Humph! When the time comes, I will..."
After a burst of happy fantasies in her heart, Hua Jingjing realized that she had achieved her initial goal, so she asked me with a smile: "Where are you going now? I'll take you there!"
I said, “Then send me home!”
"Huh? Didn't you say you had something to do tonight? Why did you go home? Did you lie to me?"
"I can only do things when I get home, is that not possible?"
"Okay! Sure! Don't be so harsh, I just said that."
As she spoke, Hua Jingjing turned the car around and drove towards the brightly lit city in the distance...
The Ferrari drove very fast, and in less than an hour, it arrived downstairs of my house. I looked at my watch and it was only 8:06 pm. After I got out of the car, I waved to Hua Jingjing and walked upstairs. Hua Jingjing poked her head out of the car and shouted, "Tang Qian! When I call you next time, you are not allowed to refuse the call!"
"Got it!" I responded impatiently and went upstairs. When I got home, I saw my mom and dad were watching TV in the living room, and my little sister was probably doing homework in her room. I greeted my parents, "Dad, Mom, I'm back," and went back to my room.
When my dad saw me trying to run away, he immediately stopped me and said, "Xiao Qian, wait a minute, come here and I'll ask you something."
I had no choice but to stop and sit on the sofa opposite my father, ready to listen to his teachings.
Sure enough, my dad picked up the TV remote control, turned down the volume, and asked me, "You've been staying out all night lately, and you rarely call home to report news. You weren't like this before. Are you hiding something from your family?"
I sighed in my heart and thought, "I don't want to stay out all night! It's just that too many things have happened recently and I 'm too !"
But some things can't be explained in a few words, and some things are not convenient to talk about now. If I talk about it, it will take a long time, and I have to make a phone call now. So I said, "Dad, don't you know your son yet? What will happen to me? But there are some things I should tell you, but tomorrow, I will talk to you two in detail tomorrow. I have something else to do today, so I'm going back to the house to take care of it."
I stood up and went back to the house. My mother was very sensitive. She was watching TV and suddenly asked me, "Xiao Qian! Give me a confirmation. Are you dating someone?" She looked at me expectantly.
I sweated for a moment, then thought for half a second and decided to tell the truth, so that my parents would be reassured. I nodded and said, "Well... I guess so. Anyway, I'll tell you tomorrow." I strode into my room, and I heard my mother laughing behind me and said to my father, "Old man, did you hear that? Your son has a girlfriend!"
My dad was not surprised at all, and said calmly: "What's the big deal? I guessed it a long time ago."
I closed the door and breathed a sigh of relief. I took out a cigarette, lit it and started smoking, then fumbled for my dead cell phone, found the charger, plugged it in, connected it to the power source, and turned it on…
Finally I dialed Gu Ruoyan's cell phone number.
I dialed for a long time, but no one answered. I was very surprised. Didn't we agree to wait for my call in the evening? I continued to dial. After about five or six minutes, I redialed ten times and finally got through. Gu Ruoyan's tongue-tied voice came from the phone: "Hello! Who is it?"
I heard a lot of noise in the background of her phone, as if she was in a bar or some other place. I frowned and said, "Manager, this is Tang Qian. Didn't I say I would call you tonight? Where are you? It's so noisy!"
Gu Ruoyan smiled indifferently on the phone and said, "Is it... Tang Qian? Come quickly, I'm... at the slow-rock bar in Austin, come... drink with me, haha..."
I was speechless and sighed in my heart, thinking: Could it be that she has been living a life of drunkenness and dreaming like this in the past few days after her divorce? Alas! This poor woman, her heart is so miserable!
I said, "Manager, you have to take care of yourself! Are you drunk again? It's stupid for you to give up on yourself like this. It's not worth it for a man like that!"
Gu Ruoyan was just smiling on the phone. Suddenly, I heard the sound of glass breaking and a scream from Gu Ruoyan. Then, there was a "click" sound from the phone, and I lost contact with the other party.
I shouted into the phone, "Hello! Manager! What happened? Hello! Hello!"
