Chapter 78: Dense smoke

She was really drunk, otherwise she wouldn’t slowly pour away all the red wine in her hand into the bathtub filled with hot water.

That one glass seemed to be not enough, so she opened another new bottle of red wine and continued to pour it into the bathtub.

The red liquids dispersed in the water, looking a lot like the color of blood.

Yan Xi suddenly felt so cold that she trembled. Her grip loosened and she hugged herself tightly. But she couldn’t withstand the bone-piercing coldness, which made her feel like she was in snowy mountains. It was so cold that her entire body quivered.

Yan Xi climbed into the bathtub. The bathtub was completely filled with hot water, but doing this did not make her feel any better. She was cold not because of the temperature outside, but it was the chill from her bones!

Inside the bathtub filled with hot water, Yan Xi’s white and tender skin was already burning red from being boiled. But she still felt cold, to the point that although she was soaking in the hot water, she couldn’t stop herself from hugging her body and quivering.

The water in her bathtub turned into a bright and half-transparent red color due to the red wine. The wine glass and red wine bottle were still floating on the water surface. Yan Xi hugged her arms tightly. As she hugged herself and watched the redness that looked so familiar, Yan Xi opened her eyes as she slowly leaned down, letting herself sink into the water completely…

When he received Yan Xi’s call, Gong Ding Chen was drinking wine at home.

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Yan Xi didn’t answer, but only asked him in a crying tone: “Why didn’t you pick up my calls…?”

“I…” Gong Ding Chen was about to explain, he didn’t ignore her phone calls, he even wanted to call her all the time, and he also waited for her to call him. He wouldn’t doubt her anymore, but also wouldn’t doubt himself. Gong Ding Chen turned on the loudspeaker and opened the call logs. He definitely didn’t miss Yan Xi’s calls.

But at this time, Yan Xi said again: “I called you many times, but you never picked up…”

He thought that she was drunk, and was saying drunken words that she didn’t even know.

“Are you at home?” Thinking that Gong Yun Ting was not with her, Gong Ding Chen got up and grabbed his coat on the sofa. He was about to leave: “I’ll come now.”

It seemed like Yan Xi didn’t hear it, and only mumbled to herself: “Last time as well…”

“Last time?” As he spoke, Gong Ding Chen had taken the elevator down to the garage. Yan Xi was soaked in the bathtub, and nodded with red eyes: “Yes, last time… last time I called you one whole day, but you never picked up.”

Gong Ding Chen got into the car. As he closed the door, he heard Yan Xi say: “That day was your birthday, I initially only wanted to wish you ‘Happy birthday’ personally.”

Yan Xi even said: “That day, I had acute gastrospasm and was sent to the hospital… Oh, you must have no idea, that day you specially flew to Japan to accompany your Chen Man Xi.”

“……”

Gong Ding Chen was stunned.

He initially thought that she was saying some nonsensical drunken words, but they weren’t.

After Yan Xi’s ”reminders”, Gong Ding Chen remembered. He really didn’t answer her phone calls. That day after he got off the plane, all of Yan Xi’s missed calls popped up on his phone after he switched it on. She did call him a few times, but he thought that she was troublesome and didn’t want to be bothered by her, so he directly blacklisted her number and weixin.

At that time, he was already very disgusted with her.

Although their bodies matched very well and he craved for her beautiful and tight body, he hated her greed and obliviousness to her own status.

He kept reminding her to remember her own identity, but she always forgot her own identity.

He only saw her as a pretty doll, a tool that he used to vent his own desires. He only liked her face and her body. Both of them were never equal in status, he was just being sympathetic to her.

But now, he regrets it.

He thought that he liked her.

He liked her beauty, her vulnerability, her smile and frown in front of the camera, and also the loneliness and coldness beneath her eyes.

“Yan Xi…” After hesitating for a long while, he called out her name: “Let’s start all over again, okay?”

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