After Leng Chuanjin finished speaking, he stood up and walked towards the door.
"If everything goes smoothly, we can set off at four o'clock tomorrow morning. Remember to tell Uncle Wang after you've packed your things."
"Go to bed early tonight."
The moment he left the room, a bolt of lightning tore through the originally dim sky outside.
With a deafening thunderclap, the heavy rain poured down.
Xia Sanghuan finished the last sip of hot cocoa in her cup and began to pack her things.
The rain outside was so loud that her figure seemed even more frail.
She crouched on the ground, opened the suitcase, and only then did she start to feel helpless and scared.
From the incident yesterday until now, she had been at the center of everything.
It was as if there had always been a pair of hands constantly pushing her into the abyss, leaving her no chance to catch her breath.
Even when she was with her family, she never relaxed for a moment.
Although she had always appeared calm during the confrontation with Xia Anying just now, in fact, her heart was already on the verge of collapse.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have lost control of her emotions and smashed that woman's phone.
It was not until her second brother came over like a savior and took her away from the scene.
Only she knew how weak her legs were at that time. If Leng Chuanjin had come a bit later, she would definitely have fallen in front of those two people.
...
"Why haven't you left yet?"
Leng Chuanjin frowned in dissatisfaction when he saw Xia Anying still sitting on the sofa with Leng Wanqing.
"Brother Chuanjin..."
Before she could finish her sentence, the man impatiently raised his hand.
"I'm not that familiar with you. Don't use such an intimate address."
Xia Anying bit her lower lip unwillingly and forced out a flattering smile.
"Mr. Leng, it's raining heavily outside. I can't go out at all..."
She said pitifully and secretly nudged Leng Wanqing with her elbow, signaling her to say a few words for her.
However, Leng Wanqing, contrary to her usual self, kept her mouth shut tightly and didn't even dare to look at her eldest brother.
"Wanqing won't help you."
"At least not under my nose."
Xia Anying smiled awkwardly, withdrew her hand that had been poking Leng Wanqing, and cursed the woman for being useless in her heart.
"Uncle Wang, give her an umbrella."
"Since she's a girl who grew up in the countryside and Sanghuan's elder sister, she shouldn't be that delicate."
"You can just walk to the station with the umbrella."
After saying this, he turned around mercilessly and left.
It was in stark contrast to his attitude in Xia Sanghuan's room just now.
Xia Anying gritted her back teeth, looking at the man's back with hatred and unwillingness.
She cast a pleading look at her "friend", but Leng Wanqing had no intention of continuing to talk to her.
She stood up and said to her,
"I'll go back to my room first."
"Contact me on the phone if there's anything."
Xia Anying looked at her in disbelief.
Just as she was about to reach out and grab her, a black umbrella was handed to her.
"Miss Xia, it's time for you to go."
Wang Fu said respectfully to her, but there was blatant mockery in his eyes.
This woman had angered Miss Xia Sanghuan time and time again before. It was finally her turn to get her just deserts this time.
"What kind of lousy umbrella did you give me? Don't you know how to pick a color that suits my status?"
Seeing that neither of the Leng siblings would help her, Xia Anying simply took her anger out on the butler and the servants as she usually did.
"Miss Xia, I still advise you to be honest today."
The butler's face darkened instantly, and there was no trace of his usual amiability.
"Master is in a very bad mood right now."
"Guess who he'll take his anger out on?"
Since he had already grasped Xia Anying's character of being soft to persuasion but not to coercion, he was satisfied to see her gradually terrified face.
"F, fine. I'll be magnanimous today and reluctantly use this umbrella for now!"
After saying that, she picked up the umbrella and ran out of the door. She almost sprained her ankle on the way because she ran too fast.
Hearing her cry of pain, the people in the house ignored it as usual and continued to do their housework with their heads down.
Xia Anying got up from the ground disgruntledly and limped into the rain.
If one didn't misread, when she first went out, she didn't have time to open the umbrella and was drenched from head to toe by the rain.
Wang Fu walked to Leng Chuanjin's bedroom door and raised his hand to knock.
The man was awakened by the knock on the door. He turned his head towards the door and said,
"What is it?"
"Master, she has left."
"Got it."
He paused for a moment and then said,
"Tell the kitchen to prepare dinner."
"Tell them to make more of Miss Xia's favorite dishes."
The butler replied with a smiling face and then walked downstairs to convey the message to the kitchen.
After making sure that the butler had left, the man finally let out a sigh of relief.
If one looked closely, one would find that he was holding a doll in his hand.
It was the one that Xia Sanghuan had given him before.
He hugged the doll in his arms and looked at it. After hesitating for a long time, he still put it into his personal travel bag.
...
"Anying!"
Shen Ya waved at the girl who had just got out of the taxi. Her plump figure was particularly eye - catching under the car lights.
She walked forward quickly and put her coat on Xia Anying.
Xia Anying was holding an umbrella in one hand and fumbling in her pocket with the other hand with difficulty.
It took her a long time to remember that her phone had been smashed and she couldn't pay the fare.
She stamped her foot angrily, splashing the water on the ground onto Shen Ya. Then, she changed her previously angry face and hooked the girl's arm.
"Xiaoya, I left my phone at home. Can you pay the taxi fare for me first?"
Shen Ya subconsciously touched the wallet in her pocket.
While they were in a stalemate, the taxi driver shouted at them,
"Do you have any money at all? Don't you want to take advantage of me!"
The driver was a middle - aged man, and his shout was extremely terrifying.
Xia Anying didn't want to lose face, so she shook her arm vigorously again.
"Xiaoya, help me. I'll definitely pay you back when we get back to the dormitory!"
Seeing her friend's almost crying expression, she gritted her teeth, took out two hundred yuan from her wallet, and handed it over.
The driver lowered his head to give her the change, but Xia Anying didn't want to stay in the rain any longer. She pulled Shen Ya and walked away.
As she walked, she said,
"Keep the rest as a tip!"
She sounded so generous as if the money was hers.
After the taxi fare was settled, she returned to her usual high - and - mighty self.
"Anying, the contact information you asked me to get last time..."
"Did you get it?"
Xia Anying looked at her with shining eyes.
"N, no..."
"Then what are you talking about?"
She rolled her eyes.
"Anying, don't be angry. I haven't had a chance to approach him yet."
"When I do, I'll definitely get his contact information for you!"
Afraid of making her friend angry again, she quickly promised.
"I hope it will be as you said."
She replied impatiently.