Chapter 55 - I Will Die

Mike was silent.

After a long time, he finally spoke, as if he could not believe it, as if he were restraining his anger, "Are you out of your mind?"

Jacob’s tone was warm and gentle. "You helped me a lot. You are a great hero."

"...”

"I can't ignore your help."

Jacob spoke very slowly and seemed to be extremely upright. "I can’t be an ingrate, right?"

"You asshole. If you had told me it was Ashley, I wouldn’t have helped you."

"Mm-hmm."

Jacob said with a smile, "If it hadn't been for you, I wouldn't have got her."

"

"I will say some good words for you in front of my brother-in-law in the future."

"...”

Mike hung up the phone.

After that, he saw the messages Liam sent him.

Liam: [is Jacob all right? He even asked for your ideas on how to chase a girl? Awesome.

Mike: [f*uck off.]

Liam: [why didn't he ask me for help?]

Liam: [Oh.]

Liam: [I don't know how to chase a girl.]

Liam: [After all, I'm the one who was crazily pursued.]

Mike: [You should check your brain in the hospital.]

Liam; [Tell me more details. How did you help?]

Mike excitedly typed a lot of words: [I didn't help him. I know nothing. Don't listen to his nonsense. How can I help? I have also chased my wife for more than half a year. How can I help him?]

Liam: [why are you being so excited?]

Mike: [I really don't know.]

Liam: [Boss Mike, you are a little strange. You've been bragging about it for three years, and you deny it now.]

Mike wanted to cry. [I really don't know, really.]

Liam sent a voice message directly and sneered, "Well done, you two, shut me out? All right.”

Mike really wanted to rush to SL and kill Jacob.

When passing the supermarket, Jacob got out of the car and bought some snacks for Ashley.

He went home, put things back in place, then sat down in front of the sofa and cleaned up the residue on the coffee table.

The house has changed back to what it used to be.

But there was still the breath left by Ashley.

Jacob stayed in the living room for a while.

He took the lighter Ashley gave him for his birthday out of his pocket.

Then he took a cigarette and bit it into his mouth.

After pausing for two seconds, he didn't light it, then put it down again and began to chuckle.

Jacob leaned lazily against the back of his chair, rubbed his lips with his fingers, and smiled a little more flirtatious and coquettish.

After a long time, he got up and went back to his room.

On the nightstand was a picture of the two of them.

Next to it was a moon-style three-dimensional night light, which was also a gift from Ashley.

He turned off the light in the room and then turned on the night light.

The room was quiet and dim.

Dim yellow light, a little less desolate taste.

There was still a message from Liam on the cell phone.

Even Mike reacted so strongly when he first heard that Jacob could probably guess how Liam would react.

He thought about it and replied: [I would go to South Star after a period of time. I will tell you face to face by then]

Then, Jacob sent a message to Ashley and went to sleep.

Maybe Ashley fell asleep, or maybe she didn't see it. She didn't reply immediately.

Jacob could not sleep. He got up and turned on the computer to finish the rest of the work.

At this time, the mobile phone rang.

Jacob looked faintly, gently scanning the strange number above, and when he was about to hang up, he suddenly remembered Ashley's words today, and the corners of his lips slowly converged.

Kathy has actually done similar things before.

For a time, his mother often introduced some girls to him.

In fact, he didn't have much thought in this respect, especially when he just graduated, he just wanted to focus on his work.

But he was not good enough to brush his mother's good intentions, and he felt that he had no reason to refuse.

There were several girls who like him and would also ask him out.

But after that, there was no more contact.

He once heard a girl mention it vaguely that a woman came to her and said something.

Jacob quickly guessed that it was Kathy, and then felt that it was not interesting.

When his mother introduced girls to him again, he just refused euphemistically under the pretext that he was busy.

In fact, it was a very realistic thing.

After all, marriage was not a trivial matter, and it was not only related to two people.

Jacob understood very well.

Because Kathy did not make any drastic actions and did not affect the girls too much, she just told the truth about his family, so Jacob did not take this matter to heart.

After such a long time, he had long forgotten Kathy's behavior.

He never thought she would go to Ashley on her own initiative.

Jacob's eyes were calm, only with a few traces of impatience.

And then he picked up the phone.

Sure enough.

Kathy's voice came from the other end of the phone.

He didn't know how she got his new number.

It seemed that she could not believe that he would answer. Kathy seemed to be stupefied, and her voice hesitated, "Jacob".

Jacob asked directly, "You went to SL University today?"

"Why," Kathy reacted and mocked, "Your little girlfriend told you? "

Jacob took out the lighter from his pocket and played with it in his hand without making a sound.

Kathy, "Had known that college students were so gullible, you should have been looking for college students before, right? Are you happy now? College students are like being brainwashed. Did you f*ck her?"

Jacob remained silent.

Kathy's volume increased, "Are you mute?"

Jacob said, "Are you done?"

"To tell you the truth, I feel really innocuous when you say these things to me."

The tone of Jacob was very light, "In comparison, your voice is more unbearable to me."

Kathy was silent for a few seconds, and her voice became more shrill. "OK, then I must disgust you."

"If you like, just do it."

Jacob didn't care much. "As for me, I thought it was all a small thing, and I didn't bother to care about it. But now I feel a little annoyed, and it doesn't look good to deal with it by myself, so I can only trouble the police. "

"Call the police? What did I do?"

"Although I don't know if it will work," Jacob chuckled, " we have to try."

"Jacob," Kathy's breathing was very loud, and she gradually began to cry, reminding hysterically, "if it weren’t your father, would my father die?"

Jacob, “Yes, he is just my father and you know that."

Kathy, "You are his son."

"From your point of view, my father killed someone when he was drunk, so as his son, I also killed someone?" Jacob said. "Then your father's daughter, why don't you die with him?

Kathy froze as if she never thought he would say something like, "What?"

Jacob realized that this was not a good thing to say, but he didn't think anything was wrong.

He pulled the corner of his lip, lowered his voice, and finally said, "What do you think? Interesting."

Then he hung up the phone.

Kathy didn't call again.

Jacob blocked her number.

Ashley came out of the bathroom after taking a bath.

Seeing the news of Jacob, she smiled and replied: [not yet, ready to go to bed.]

She thought about it and added: [but if you want to talk to me, I can barely stay up.]

She then changed the remark ‘suitor’ to ‘Jacob’.

Jacob: [I'm here to help you sleep.]

Ashley frowned: [you can go to bed early, why do you always stay up late? It's not a good thing.]

Ashley: [you will grow old very quickly.]

Sophie sat in her seat and casually asked, "Ash, why are you so late tonight? I just met someone from your department at the party, and I didn't see you. "

Ashley looked up, "I went to meet Jacob."

Sophie, "Like, a date?"

Ashley blinked, "I'm with him."

Hearing this, Lily turned her head, "So fast?"

"I think not."

Ashley felt that she had dragged on for a long time. "He didn't know that I liked him, but he knew, why did I let him chase me? That's strange."

Lily, "Make sense."

Ashley bowed her head and continued to chat with Jacob.

Jacob: [I don’t care. I have a girlfriend anyway.]

Ashley: [I care.]

Jacob: [all right.]

Jacob: [then I'll go to bed early.]

Ashley checked the time and said: [we could talk for half an hour.]

Half an hour later.

Maybe it was because of what happened today, Ashley was still not sleepy and full of spirit.

She held her cell phone and huddled in the quilt, showing no intention of going to bed.

But Jacob took the initiative to bring it up and went to sleep.

Ashley rolled over reluctantly: [we could talk for another half an hour.]

It took dozens of seconds for Jacob to reply, repeating what she just said: [I would grow old very quickly.]

Ashley smiled and repeated his words: [you have a girlfriend anyway.]

In the twinkling of an eye, June was coming.

The work in Ashley's group has been completed, only a small amount of modification was needed, and it will be handed in soon.

With exam week approaching, Ashley put aside the competition and began to work on the exam. She also took advantage of this time, like Sophie, to make a resume form and send it to the right company.

After thinking about it for a long time, Ashley called Grace and nervously mentioned that she would not go home during the summer vacation.

After listening to her idea, Grace unexpectedly did not have much opposition, just let her pay attention to her own safety, and then she had to go home on National Day.

Ashley agreed.

The courses have been suspended one after another, and Ashley wanted to get a scholarship, so she paid special attention to academic achievement, spent most of her time in the library, and met Jacob less often.

Jacob mentioned to accompany her several times, but she refused.

She felt that if Jacob was next to her, and she must not be able to concentrate.

Moreover, he will probably feel very bored when he stayed in the library.

That day, Ashley finished washing and came out of the toilet.

She climbed into bed, and before she went to bed, she heard Vivian say, "I heard that there will be a power outage in the whole school tomorrow."

Sophie, "What?"

Vivian, "It is said that the power distribution room will be repaired, and then only a few dormitory buildings had electricity, and nothing else."

Sophie, "What about our dormitory?"

Vivian, "Totally dark."

Lily, “How long will it be?”

Vivian, "From 7: 00 in the morning to 9: 00 in the evening."

Lily, “ I might have heatstroke without electricity."

Ashley also felt a little irritable, after all, she also needed a computer to review.

But after she thought it over, she felt as if it was no big deal. She planned to get up tomorrow and go straight to a quiet coffee shop outside the school for a whole day.

But what caught Ashley off guard was that under the dual influence of exam week and power outages, shops that usually had little business outside the school were basically occupied.

She came early in the morning and couldn't get a seat.

She checked the time, went into the subway station, and planned to take the subway to the city library to review.

At this time, Jacob happened to call, the voice came along the current, low and sweet, with a familiar smile, "Babe, are you free to come out for dinner today?"

Ashley thought, "I'm going to the city library now."

"City Library?"

"Mm-hmm."

Ashley said, "There is a power outage in our school. I'll go over there and find a place to review."

Jacob warned, "There is not much space in that library, and there should be no place to go now."

When she heard his words, she paused, so depressed that she wanted to lose her temper. "It's so hard to find a place to review."

It was the weekend, Jacob happened to be at home, and there was nothing else to do at the moment.

He chuckled and slowly threw out a proposal, "Come to my house."

Ashley was moved, but hesitated," Will you affect me? "

"No."

Ashley didn't want to waste any more time, "I'll take the subway now."

Getting off the subway and getting out of the gate.

Ashley looked down at her mobile phone and noticed the message from Jacob, saying he was waiting for her in the subway station.

She looked up, looked around, and saw that he was standing not far away.

Jacob wore black short sleeves and long sweatpants with one hand in his pocket and a mobile phone in the other with a low eye.

Tall and thin, handsome and cold, he stood out in this crowd.

Ashley was going to walk over.

At this moment, a woman came up to him with red cheeks and a shy smile.

She could tell at a glance that she wanted to ask him for his phone number.

Ashley's expression suddenly changed.

She went over in silence, stood firmly beside them, and did not take the initiative to speak.

She heard the woman speak who was a little embarrassed. "Hello, can I have your phone number, please?"

Hearing the sound, Jacob raised her eyelids and happened to notice Ashley, who kept a poker face and was silent.

He stopped, stared at her with interest for several seconds, and then said to the woman, "No."

Paused for a few seconds.

Jacob looked at Ashleyagain and chuckled, "If my girlfriend knows."

"I will die."