Ye Yanxi stood downstairs, shivering from the cold. She hesitated whether to go up or not.
However, the moment she thought of Xiao Yu's cold face, she dismissed the idea. She walked to the roadside and hailed a taxi.
While sitting in the taxi, she had no choice but to call He Chuyan. It was already past midnight. He Chuyan might have fallen asleep. It took quite a while before a drowsy voice came from the other end.
"Xixi, what's going on so late?"
Hearing He Chuyan's sleepy yet concerned voice, Ye Yanxi's tears almost welled up again. In an instant, she felt extremely aggrieved. She tried hard to control her emotions so as not to cry. "Yanyan, my bag was stolen. I lost my keys. Could you take me in for the night?"
As soon as she finished speaking, there was a scream from the receiver. "What? Your bag was stolen? Where are you now? Stay put. I'll come pick you up."
Ye Yanxi was touched for a moment. Her voice was a bit choked. "It's okay. I still have some money. I've taken a taxi and I'm on my way to your place."
"Okay. Then I'll wait for you downstairs. Call me when you arrive."
"Okay."
When the taxi arrived at the entrance of the community where He Chuyan lived, before Ye Yanxi could call, she saw He Chuyan's slender figure under the street lamp. She was only wearing a pajamas and shivering from the cold.
Getting out of the taxi, Ye Yanxi ran towards He Chuyan. Without waiting for He Chuyan to ask, she threw herself into her arms.
"Yanyan..."
"Okay. Save your words for later. It's cold outside." He Chuyan patted her on the back consolingly.
Only then did Ye Yanxi realize that her body had already been freezing cold. A chill came over her and she shivered.
When they got to He Chuyan's home, after He Chuyan's endless nagging, Ye Yanxi was driven into the bathroom to take a hot shower. Holding the hot water that He Chuyan had poured for her, she took a few sips and only then did she feel as if she had come back to life.
He Chuyan had never seen Ye Yanxi like this before. She thought it was because of Chu Beize that Ye Yanxi had ended up like this. So she opened her mouth and scolded, "That bastard Chu Beize. Next time I see him, I'll scold him so badly that he'll wish he could be remade, and beat him until he begs for mercy..."
"It's not because of him!" After He Chuyan had finished scolding, Ye Yanxi spoke up after a long while. She accidentally bit her lip, and a sharp pain shot through her. Her beautiful eyebrows immediately knitted together.
"Then who else could it be?"
Ye Yanxi closed her eyes and shook her head. "Yanyan, don't ask. I'm tired."
Looking at Ye Yanxi's expression, He Chuyan knew that she didn't intend to say anything.
She glanced at the clock on the wall. It was already one o'clock. He Chuyan yawned. "It's already one o'clock. Stop thinking about those things. Come on, go to sleep with your sister!"
The next day, He Chuyan got up early to go to work. Ye Yanxi didn't move. She had already decided not to go to Xiao's Group and was too lazy to go out.
As soon as she got to He Chuyan's place last night, she turned off her phone and didn't turn it on the next day either.
In the evening, He Chuyan's landlord suddenly came over. Only then did Ye Yanxi turn on her phone and call He Chuyan.
Just after hanging up the phone, there were a bunch of text messages and missed calls.
There were messages from the Personnel Department of Xiao's Group and from Sister Yang, the supervisor of the Business Department.
When she scrolled to the last message, the corner of her eye twitched involuntarily.
It was from Xiao Yu. The time was one o'clock in the early morning last night, when she had already turned off her phone.
The text message from Xiao Yu only had two simple words: Where.
But looking at this text message, Ye Yanxi felt as if her heart had been pricked. Even the wound on her lip that had already scabbed over began to hurt.
Maybe she was just overthinking. He found her bag and just asked casually.
Her finger hovered over the delete button for a long time. In the end, she was still hesitant. Suddenly, a new text message came in. The sender was still Xiao Yu. The text message was a concise sentence: If you don't come to the company tomorrow, be prepared to compensate for a loss of one million.
Ye Yanxi felt a surge of anger well up inside her. She angrily threw her phone onto the bed.
In the underground garage of Xiao's Group, just after Xiao Yu sent the text message, Fang Xu in the passenger seat turned around. His expression was a bit hesitant as he asked a question.