Rong Lan didn't listen to what Chu Hengyuan and the driver were talking about at all. She secretly absorbed the foreign - language skills from the original owner's memory.
Learning a new language was not easy for her. It wasn't until they reached their destination and she got out of the car that she had only digested half of it. She could more or less guess what the driver was saying, but she couldn't speak it herself.
"Lan Lan, go in by yourself later." Chu Hengyuan checked the house number. After confirming the location was correct, he tugged at the little girl standing behind him, who seemed to be doing God - knows - what.
Rong Lan, with a dizzy head, staggered when she was pulled and bumped her head into Chu Hengyuan's shoulder.
Chu Hengyuan was startled. He quickly put his arm around Rong Lan's shoulder and asked, "Lan Lan, are you carsick?"
Why did his little girl look so dazed and unsteady on her feet?
Rong Lan took a deep breath and waved her hand. "No, no. I was just too absorbed in my thoughts." In fact, her head had been filled with the obscure foreign language just now, and she felt like her whole fox self was floating.
Two or three seconds later, she finally processed what Chu Hengyuan had said half a minute ago. She looked up at him in confusion and asked, "Brother, why aren't you coming in with me? Where are you going?"
"Bai Rongran may not be happy to see me." Chu Hengyuan smiled and gently rubbed the place on her forehead where she had bumped into his shoulder. "It's already dawn. The shops outside the villa complex should be opening soon. I'll just find a shop with a seating area and sit there. Lan Lan, if you want to find me, just send me a message."
Rong Lan thought of Bai Rongran's state when she called. She had to admit that he was right. If he was there, with Bai Rongran's proud personality, she might not say anything to her and might even refuse to let her in.
"Then take good care of yourself, brother." The little fox waved her hand boldly.
"Okay." Chu Hengyuan put his hand on Rong Lan's shoulder and turned her around to face the house number. "Wait until I'm far away before you ring the doorbell. Remember, it's the house with the Christmas tree hanging at the door. Don't go to the wrong one." The villas in this complex were so uniformly designed that one villa was right next to another, and the entrances almost looked the same. They could only be distinguished by the house numbers and the simple little ornaments hanging at the doors.
Rong Lan nodded. "Okay." She could read the house number now, so there was no way she would go to the wrong place.
"Then I'll leave first. Lan Lan, just contact me if you need anything. I'll be nearby and won't go far." As he said this, Chu Hengyuan let go of his hand.
Rong Lan still just nodded. Her face might as well have had the word "obedient" written on it. "Don't worry. I won't get lost!"
Chu Hengyuan couldn't help but laugh. It seemed that the little girl knew full well that he was worried about her getting lost.
He didn't say anything else. He just ruffled her hair and turned away.
This villa complex was adjacent to a commercial street. He walked through a two - or three - hundred - meter alley and went from the sparsely populated villa area to the bustling commercial street. He looked around, determined the general direction, and first went into a convenience store to buy some water.
Rong Lan, who stayed in the villa complex, watched Chu Hengyuan walk away. She reached up to smooth down the fox ears that the man had ruffled, and then she went to ring the doorbell.
The doorbell rang once. Rong Lan waited for two minutes, but no one came to open the door.
Rong Lan thought that Bai Rongran might still be asleep. She rang the doorbell again and took out her phone to check if the address Bai Rongran had sent her was the same as the one on the house number.
After spending half a minute checking the address, Rong Lan put her phone back in her pocket, rolled up her sleeves, and was about to break in by force.
Since the address was correct, could it be that Bai Rongran had passed out at home?
While imagining all the terrible things that might have happened, she stretched her hands and feet, getting ready to kick the door.
Just then, the door was pulled open from the inside. Bai Rongran was stunned when she saw the person wringing her wrists.
Rong Lan was also stunned because the Rongran she saw at this moment was completely different from the person she had seen in the video call not long ago.
The person in the video call had a round face. Although her complexion wasn't very good, at least her body had been well - taken - care - of. But the person standing in front of her now... Her cheeks were sunken, there were small cuts on her face, her lips were chapped, there were heavy dark circles under her eyes, and her eyes were full of bloodshot. She looked so haggard that it was heart - wrenching.
"You... Why are you here?" Bai Rongran tightly grasped the doorknob and tried her best to suppress the sobs in her voice. However, she didn't know that the moment their eyes met, another tear rolled down from the corner of her eye.
The little fox, who didn't know how to comfort others, bristled slightly. After hesitating for a moment, she stepped closer to Bai Rongran, reached out, and gently stroked Bai Rongran's pale, bloodless cheek. "I said I'd come as fast as I could. I never lie."
The next second, Rong Lan's waist was hugged. Bai Rongran buried her head in Rong Lan's shoulder, sobbing quietly, and her whole body was trembling slightly.
Rong Lan's mind went blank for a moment. She took a deep breath and noticed that the curious gazes of the passers - by seemed to be on them. She pushed Bai Rongran's shoulder gently. "Why don't we go inside and talk? Rongran, you don't want to be watched by others, do you?"
She never expected Bai Rongran's emotions to be in such a mess.
Moreover... Although Bai Rongran was dressed very thickly, she noticed that Bai Rongran's stomach was flat.
Worst of all, the causal lines on Bai Rongran told her that losing the child wasn't the most tragic thing that had happened to Bai Rongran.
Bai Rongran listened to Rong Lan's words. She took a step back, moved to the side to make way for Rong Lan, and then lowered her head to wipe the tears on her face randomly. "Come in."
Rong Lan walked into the house, and Bai Rongran closed the door and locked it.
The things in the house were neatly arranged. Rong Lan scanned the furnishings in the first - floor living room and her eyes fell on the few medicine bottles on the coffee table. Her eyes darkened. If she wasn't mistaken, the labels on the medicine bottles were for sleeping pills in a foreign language. Why would there be sleeping pills in a pregnant woman's house?
"I didn't expect you to come."
Rong Lan came back to her senses and turned to look at Bai Rongran, who was rarely in such a mess. "Don't you have any faith in me at all?"
"No." Bai Rongran looked directly into Rong Lan's clear and bright eyes. "I wasn't good to you. You should hate me. When I called you, it was two or three o'clock in the morning in your time zone, right? I thought..." She thought that what Rong Lan said was just to comfort her.
It was only after she hung up the phone that she realized that it was impossible to buy a plane ticket to a foreign country at three o'clock in the morning in China. She really thought that Rong Lan was just comforting her, and maybe Rong Lan would go back to sleep after answering the call.
She never expected that before she even saw the morning sunlight, she saw Rong Lan.
Rong Lan snorted softly. "Whether I hate you or not, we won't talk about that today. Rongran, you should tell me what happened."