After scolding Zhou Jin and venting my anger, I threw my phone aside and planned to cover myself with the blanket before going back to sleep. However, unexpectedly, a distant and familiar voice came from the handset.
"It's me."
In the 40-square-meter bedroom where the intelligent central stereo repeatedly played "timeflies", it was so dark that it was deathly still. Only the music and breathing were still alive in the middle of the night. Covering my ears beneath the duvet, I keenly caught the faint sound that seemed to have come from another planet.
After that, my mind went blank for a few seconds before I realized that the other party was not Zhou Jin. Then, a sudden surge of intense heat started to flow from the depths of my lower abdomen, shaking as I realised that the person on the other end of the phone was actually Gao Kan.
After separating with Gao Kan, I moved away from the original apartment building and rented the independent office. The four floors were the studio's office, and the top two floors were my temporary residence and office.
Located in the CBD business district, the lights are always on in the dead of night, and the people who fight in this city don't seem to need to sleep, but work day and night. As long as they open the curtains when they sleep and look at the lights in the world full of smoke and fire, they don't feel lonely spending the night here when they're alone.
Sometimes I listen to the ethereal Icelandic radio, the Scotch bagpipes, the Jade Hills, the Midland Mecca, the Jazz Queen Billeholiday, and I listen to all their albums, playing them over and over again, from night to dawn, dozing off and waking up sleepily in the morning to sing along.
Before going to bed, he would often drink a glass of red wine. He could not help but maintain his beauty and sleep peacefully. However, he could not control the amount of wine he drank most of the time.
So at first I didn't pay much attention to the phone call. I just thought I was drinking too much and my brain wasn't working that well, so I made the wrong judgement.
I felt for the touch panel on the bedside table, turned off the music in the smart sound system, and reached for my cell phone. When I was about to turn off the phone, I heard some rustling noises coming from the phone that I hadn't hung up, followed by the familiar voice from before. This time his voice was loud and clear.
"Where are you now? is it convenient to come to the Jinyuan and bring Zhou Jin away? "
Familiar with the cool and low, rich people easily produce the magnetic impulse, but a little strange.
I dare confirm that it's undoubtedly Gao Kan.
He immediately pulled back the blanket and sat up straight.
Inside, Gao Kan said: "Something has happened, he is currently in my house, come and take him away. If it's inconvenient for you, I'll send him over. He can't stay here for long … "
I didn't quite understand what Gao Kan was saying. All I could think about was what kind of nonsense he seemed to be spouting just now. I wanted Zhou Jin to propose to me, but he refused.
It's over! It's all over!
Would Gao Kan think that I like him?
I threw my phone aside, distracted, trying to remember what I had just said.
After so many years, hearing his voice again, in this way, at this time and place, I had not expected it, and, before I had even opened my mouth, I had first reflected on whether I had said the wrong thing to make him angry.
I'm so angry with myself!
"If I didn't have to, I wouldn't call you. If you think it's inconvenient, then forget it. I'll send him back." Seeing that I was quiet for a long time, Gao Kan started to speak very quickly: "Oh, right, give me the address so that I can send him off."
I wouldn't call you unless I had to.
What did that mean?
"Forget it, I'll find a hotel for him and then send you the address. Bring him back and persuade him not to do anything stupid."
Afraid that Gao Kan would hang up, before finding the right words to say, in a moment of desperation, I blurted out a question to him about Zhou Jin's matter, "What idiotic thing did he do?"
His tone was as indifferent as his voice. It was ice-cold and very appropriate.
Gao Kan paused for a moment, "... How about we meet up? There are some things that I want to talk to you about. "
I looked at the time. It was already past one o'clock in the evening. I coldly said, "If you have anything to say, just say it on the phone."
"I can't explain it clearly. You should come to my house. Right now, I'll wait for you." Gao Kan used the same tone as before, saying that he couldn't refuse. Then, he hung up the phone.
Damn it, why should I go see him now?!
I slammed the phone down in anger.
It's still snowing and the roads are slippery from the cold. Doesn't he think it's inconvenient for me to drive?
Why is he still the same as before …
"Duk Duk Duk —"
Outside the bedroom, the doorbell suddenly rang.
"Director Yi, I'm Little Wang."
Little Wang? In the middle of the night, what was he doing here?
Just as I was wondering, Xiao Wang said loudly, "Mr. Gao said that you are going out, and he asked me to send you out."
The time is just right, you can see, before he called me, he had already let Xiao Wang off scot-free, and then told me a bunch of nonsense about asking me to fetch Zhou Jin back, and how he sent him to the hotel, before he finally ordered me to go to the Gao Family.
It was clear that he knew me as well as he had ever known me, and he knew that things would go his way.
I was furious most of the night.
Is three years not enough time to change me?
At this very moment, I was so filled with resentment against him that there was no possibility of a reunion, and the only superfluous thought I had was that I was indignant at the unfair conversation we had had.
I put on the blanket, rushed into the living room, and shouted to Little Wang who was outside, "What Mr. Gao? "Who does he think he is? Do you listen to me or to him?"
"..." Little Wang lowered her head.
"Scram!" I yelled at him.
He stood there without moving.
"Buzz buzz buzz."
The phone in my hand suddenly vibrated. It was really adding fuel to the fire. I casually threw the phone to the side.
The phone dropped onto the sofa and continued ringing the bell.
Damn it!
I angrily walked over and picked up my phone again, intending to throw it on the marble table in front of me. I wanted to smash it to pieces and let Gao Kan die, but when I accidentally saw the word "husband" flashing on the phone screen, my hands immediately froze.
Ever since we parted ways, I hadn't changed my phone number. Gao Kan's phone number, was also quietly lying on the contact list on my phone, I had thought many times that he might call me to explain some of his actions, resolve our misunderstanding, call me my wife, beg me to return to his side, but it never did.
As I gradually gave up and decided to forget everything that had happened, Gao Kan once again came to disturb my peaceful life.
This time, how could I allow the world under my control to be turned upside down?