Chapter 150 - How Shameless You Are to Ask the Question!

Chapter 150 How Shameless You Are to Ask the Question!

As Tang Xia rested in bed, she could not fall to sleep after lying in a daze for a long time. She did not fall asleep even though she had tossed and turned for a good while.

So she became a little restless while she stared at the ceiling in bed, not knowing what she was thinking about.

Suddenly, she thought of a rather bold idea, which made her instantly awake. Then she hastened to pull back the quilt, got out of bed, and put on a dress for herself with difficulty.

She took out a small suitcase from the closet and put in it her usual clothes along with some household items.

With all of that done, Tang Xia peeked her head out of the door and found that her mother-in-law was not in the living room. “Maybe she is in her own room!”

So when her mother-in-law was in her own room and did not pay attention to her, Tang Xia sneaked out of the house without making a sound.

Although Tang Xia’s foot injury was still recovering, it did not affect her idea of leaving this place immediately.

After hobbling out of the house, she took a taxi in a place that was a little far from home and got in. Then she said happily to the taxi driver, “Please drive me to the real estate agency, thank you.”

“OK!” Then the taxi sped to the real estate agency.

The taxi driver had such good driving skills that Tang Xia did not feel any jounce while the car was running at a high speed.

As Tang Xia sat in the taxi and saw the house get farther and farther away, she felt quite happy. “Screw the task! I quit! Why should I stay there and let myself be wronged?”

A few minutes later, the taxi stopped and Tang Xia came to her senses that she had arrived at the destination—the real estate agency.

After paying the taxi driver, Tang Xia got out of the car. She had a smile on and felt quite happy to see the real estate agency in front of her.

When she was about to go, a man suddenly ran in her direction.

Tang Xia noticed the situation and knew that it would not be good if that man bumped into her as her foot injury was still recovering. So she became a little alarmed and wanted to make way for him.

Tang Xia could have not been hit. However, that man seemed to bump into her on purpose. So Tang Xia was knocked down.

Tang Xia did not escape from the crisis and was hit by the man straight from his shoulder.

Besides that, her ankle was already injured so that she could not keep her feet. After being hit by the man, she fell on the ground and could not stand up for a while.

This scene in front of her made Tang Xia feel that she seemed to have experienced it before.

That man who knocked her down did not say sorry or cast his gaze on Tang Xia. Then he grabbed Tang Xia’s suitcase and hastened to run away.

Although Tang Xia sat on the ground and wanted to stand up, she could not get up and had no choice but to watch that man run farther and farther away with her suitcase.

“Seriously? Am I so unfortunate? The moment I get out of the car, my suitcase is stolen! What bad luck! Alas!” Tang Xia felt a little remorseful.

As Tang Xia was afraid of losing her belongings, she put all her credentials and money into her suitcase so that she would not lose anything.

At this moment, Tang Xia had nothing else aside from the change the taxi driver had given her.

Tang Xia stood up slowly, leaned against a telephone pole with her hand, and looked around in confusion while she flicked the dust off of her. Then she found that there was a bus stop just up ahead.

After hobbling to the bus stop, she got on the bus with her remaining change to go to the police station.

When she got to the police station, she reported the case to the policeman who asked her some basic questions, like: What that man looked like, where her suitcase was robbed, what she lost, and the like.

After Tang Xia answered those questions respectively, the policeman completed the interrogation record and said to her with a serious face, “We have checked the record and found that he has no criminal record.

“So prepare yourself psychologically for your suitcase not being found. But we will try our best to help you.”

As the policeman had said so, Tang Xia had no choice but to put on a fake smile for him sitting in front of her and expressed her thanks. Then she left the police station.

Tang Xia walked along the street without purpose for a while.

Feeling a little tired, Tang Xia sat on a bench and looked at the sky. But it suddenly started to rain.

At first, it was drizzling so that Tang Xia did not feel much. Then the rain became heavier and heavier so that Tang Xia stared at the rain with a gaunt face.

As the rainfall became heavier, Tang Xia wanted to take shelter from the rain in a supermarket nearby. However, the shop assistant looked with disdain at Tang Xia who was soaked to the skin and asked her to leave in a relatively polite way.

Tang Xia had no choice but to be exposed in the rain, sitting by the roadside. And she thought, “Why am I so unfortunate? I shouldn’t have left while my ankle injury is still recovering.

“I am a semi-invalid now. What could I do even if I run out of the house? I could do nothing but watch my suitcase be stolen, which made me have no money to go home.”

The more she thought, the more foolish and more unfortunate she regarded herself. Although she wanted to cry, she could not.

Feeling a little cold while she was caught in the rain, Tang Xia wanted to call Jiang Yuecheng. However, the moment she dialed his number, she hung up the phone immediately.

“Forget about it. It is useless to call him because he must get busy spending time with Zhou Linlin. They already dislike me so much, it will be more annoying if I call him,” Tang Xia thought somewhat desperately.

Rummaging through her contact list for a long time, Tang Xia found that the only person she could seek help was Chu Tiankuo.

So she called Chu Tiankuo in the end. When the phone call connected, Chu Tiankuo said, “Hello, aren’t you sleeping yet? Are you calling me this late because you miss me?” He said the latter part of his sentence half-jokingly.

On hearing Chu Tiankuo’s voice, Tang Xia’s nose twitched and she wanted to cry. Then she said somewhat choked up, “Yep, I miss you.”

As he noticed that there was something wrong with her voice and it seemed that she was outside, Chu Tiankuo said, “Are you outside? It is raining now.”

“May… be,” Tang Xia said, “I am on the roadside. Could you please come pick me up?”

Hearing what she had said, Chu Tiankuo got up immediately and hastened to get dressed. Then he said to her, “Wait for me. I’ll be there within 10 minutes. Stay where you are and I’ll be there right away.”

After hanging up the phone, Tang Xia lowered her head.

In a short while, a pair of black sneakers came into Tang Xia’s sight. And she saw Chu Tiankuo standing with an umbrella over his head in front of her. Then Tang Xia gawked at Chu Tiankuo.

But Tang Xia did not know how angry Chu Tiankuo was in his mind when he found her. “How foolish she is! Why didn’t she carry an umbrella with her while it’s raining so heavily? Did she want to be exposed to the rain?”

Chu Tiankuo shouted at Tang Xia, “Why are you standing on the roadside caught in the rain? Why didn’t you take shelter from the rain in the supermarket? Aren’t you able to get out of the rain?”

Hearing what he had said, Tang Xia felt a little wronged. “I intended to do that. But I was kicked out by the shop assistant.”

Tang Xia said those words somewhat choked up and lowered her head when she finished her sentence. Then she started to weep in a low voice. As her cry became louder and louder, she began to wail.

Chu Tiankuo had no choice but to squat down to look straight at her. Then he held her in his arms and patted her on the shoulder to comfort her.

Tang Xia felt tired after crying for a long time and fell asleep in his arms confidently.

As Chu Tiankuo noticed that Tang Xia was quiet with a tired look, he lifted Tang Xia up and took her to his home due to the heavy rain.

Feeling dizzy and sleepy, Tang Xia started to talk nonsense. Then Chu Tiankuo found that her face was quite hot. After taking her temperature with a thermometer, it turned out that Tang Xia had a high fever.

So Chu Tiankuo changed Tang Xia’s wet clothes immediately for a new shirt and tucked her into bed.

Then he dried Tang Xia’s hair with a hairdryer and brewed a bottle of cold medicine for her in the kitchen. After feeding her the medicine, he had no alternative but to stand aside and look at her.

At this moment, Tang Xia’s cellphone rang suddenly. Chu Tiankuo grabbed and found that it was Jiang Yuecheng who was calling. As he noticed that Tang Xia was unconscious, he picked up the phone and put it close to his ear.

What he heard from the phone was a man shouting in a quite impolite voice: “Where have you been? Why haven’t you come back home by now? How dare you!”

On the phone, Jiang Yuecheng was quite angry at Tang Xia, who had sneaked out and did not come back even though it was so late, so he could not hold back any longer and called her.

Chu Tiankuo picked up the phone and heard Jiang Yuecheng’s words. Then he put on a terrible expression right away and said in a cold voice, “How shameless you are to ask that question!”