My Terrible Life in Those Years

I glanced at her, about to ask her whether to answer or not.

The phone rang so jarringly in the dead of night.

But when she heard the phone ring again, she was already somewhat distraught.

I sighed and answered the phone again.

"Didn't you hear what I just said?" I emphasized.

But it wasn't the woman's voice coming from inside.

It was the voice of the man who called the first time.

"Excuse me, young man, I'm looking for Xiaoyan!"

I was quite shocked. Hey, this attitude is completely different from the first time, and from his crazy wife!

His lips twitched.

He glanced at Du Yan.

She looked at me timidly, and I said, "Should I answer? That man. Not that old hag."

The man on the phone visibly took a breather.

Du Yan only snapped out of her daze when I told her that the person on the phone was a man.

Quickly smooth your hair with your hands and wipe away the eye marks.

I really want to say, girl, this is just a phone call, not a video call. They can't see how miserable you look. Why bother putting on makeup just to answer a phone call?

She answered the phone and said softly, "Hello!"

I could barely hear what was said after that.

But you can guess from her actions and reactions.

This guy asked her if she was involved in some kind of trouble with me, and if she was really going to sue him or something.

Du Yan spoke while excitedly shaking her head and waving her hands in denial.

I almost wanted to kick her.

I finally managed to build up her momentum, and now she's completely ruined it.

"Oh, oh, tomorrow, we'll discuss it in detail tomorrow? Okay, I understand!"

Du Yan handed the phone back to me with a strange expression.

"He...he asked me to meet him tomorrow to discuss things in more detail." Du Yan glanced at me cautiously.

"Tomorrow? Don't you have to go to work? You'll see him as soon as you start working, so what's the point of making plans?" I was getting a little annoyed.

This girl, the moment she saw or heard about this guy, betrayed me and distanced herself from him completely, leaving me with no grounds for defending her.

What kind of spell did this man cast on you?

"Tomorrow is Saturday, we don't work at our company!" She glanced at me with a complicated expression.

I've been so overwhelmed by all these things happening one after another these past few days that I was a bit dizzy. It was only after she reminded me that I remembered.

I'm not going to work tomorrow either, it's Saturday.

As I held the phone, I asked her, "Do you still want to meet her and get things cleared up?"

"I... I've already agreed to him! I just want to ask if he still loves me, and what he's going to do with me? He said his wife doesn't know anything about this, so how did she suddenly find out? I have so many questions for him."

The moment I saw her expression, I knew this woman was deeply poisoned.

Besides, if someone's meeting their lover, can I stop them? What can I do?

"Okay. Let's go and find out what's going on." I had a bunch of things to sort out myself, and now Du Yan was dragging this into it. My head was spinning.

She nodded slightly.

Just before leaving, I casually asked her a question.

"His attitude improved a lot when he heard me say you were going to report him to his workplace. What kind of workplace do you work for?"

"Our unit? Oh, you didn't know I work at the planning institute? It's the place that specifically manages the urban planning of Huacheng."

Holy crap, isn't this our company's superior approval authority?

This is a public institution, you know.

"Then, with such a nice apartment, why are you still living here?"

"I'm just a contract worker, helping with some paperwork, typing, delivering documents and stuff like that!"

She was quite frank and didn't think there was anything wrong with being a temporary worker.

"Is he the leader?"

"He is a deputy section chief in our department."

The matter is quite clear: she joined this company, caught the eye of a junior manager, and was won over by his sweet talk. Now that she has had an abortion, he probably finds her a bit of a nuisance and is afraid that Du Yan will keep bothering him because of this, so he directly made her leave the company and find her another place.

I never expected that the angry words I said to his wife later would scare him.

Compared to his profession and work, Du Yan's situation suddenly became more complicated.

If Du Yan really causes a scene at work, he will not only lose face, but it could also have an unpredictable impact on his job.

I deduced that this was his reason for pleading with Du Yan to meet him.

Being forceful won't do him any good; only a gentle approach will work. He'll see that Du Yan's heart still belongs to him, so he'll try to persuade, coax, and deceive her.

You bastard!

Planning office? The one in charge of urban planning? Our company's approval authority?

Suddenly, this information exploded in my mind. All that time at the company organizing data these past few days hadn't been for nothing.

I snapped out of it. Holy crap, what a coincidence!

My mind raced with all sorts of thoughts and possibilities.

"I'll go with you tomorrow. I'm worried he might try something to mess with you. What if his wife is there too? What if she hits or hurts you?"

Du Yan suddenly realized what was happening.

I tensed up.

He had been so gentle with me that I had forgotten about his wife, but now that I reminded him, he's come to his senses.

She grabbed my arm again: "You, him, her, yeah, yeah, his wife is so wicked, won't she call some of her sisters or aunts to deal with me?"

I sighed inwardly, "That's right, isn't that how it's always portrayed on TV?"

Who told you to lose control of your heart and get involved with a married man?

Now that things have gone wrong, it's obvious they're going to abandon you, and now you're worried about their wife causing you trouble.

What else is this but being despicable?

"If they've already discussed how to handle this, it's really hard to say. If he shifts all the blame onto you, and even onto me, it's not impossible that she might try to get back at you."

"Then, what should we do? He just said he came to see me alone! He wouldn't lie to me!"

Damn it, you little wench, your whole being, including your heart, has been completely fooled, and you still say you wouldn't lie to her!

I thought for a moment and said, "How about this, I'll go with you. You go to the designated location first, and I'll observe from the side. They don't know me anyway. You can just take my phone. If his wife really brings people to cause trouble, it's not too late for me to show up then."

Du Yan completely lost her composure and couldn't come up with a better solution.

He nodded in agreement.

"Do you have a camera?" I asked as I left.

"What do you need a camera for?" she asked, puzzled.

"Hey, my dear sister, if they really do attack, don't you need to keep some evidence? What if they hurt or cripple you, and they started it? We need reliable evidence, right?"

Of course, there's another purpose, which I can't and don't want to say right now: to see if this guy will have any influence on this renovation plan!

"Oh, oh, yes, yes. He had a microcontroller here with me before, it's perfect for you to use!"

She took a camera out of the drawer and handed it to me.