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As soon as the call connected, Liu Yu's roar exploded from the receiver.

"Waaah..."

Li Qing shrank back, and hearing Liu Yu's thunderous rage, he cried.

"Waaaaah... I... I'm sick... Waaaaah..."

His outburst on the other end of the phone left Liu Yu speechless. Her anger froze, her face contorted in a grimace, her mouth agape, but she couldn't utter a word for a long time.

After a long while, he finally sighed.

"...I'm speechless. Stop crying! How...how did you even think of dating him?!"

"I...I don't know..."

"I was just interacting with him normally, but... but then we got together..."

He spoke incoherently, recalling his past with He Xiangchen, and then remembering that it was all just toying with him, which made him even more upset.

Liu Yu spat out a curse.

"Tch! I think you're just after his ugly face!"

"How could an Alpha like him, a Crown member of Shengxin, possibly be a good person? I've told you that so many times!"

Li Qing wiped away her tears, trying her best to hold them back, and then repeated He Xiangchen's story of "pitiful background, being ostracized by his family, and poor health" to Liu Yu in fits and starts.

With each word he spoke, Liu Yu's breathing became heavier.

After he finished speaking, Liu Yu was speechless.

"Li Qing, I really... I really have nothing to say. After I left, didn't you have a single capable person by your side?"

"Still being bullied? In poor health?"

Liu Yu's voice suddenly rose: "Back in Shengxin's time, the people around him practically treated him like royalty! The way Zhang Chen fawned over him back then, you should know he wasn't someone who would be bullied!"

"Not in good health?! Look at all those muscles he's got, he could easily take on both of us! You actually believe that nonsense?!"

It would have been better if Liu Yu hadn't said anything; the more Li Qing talked, the more she felt like a fool. To save face, she couldn't help but mutter a defense in a low voice.

"But at that time, he was standing at the toilet door, looking really pale and uncomfortable..."

Liu Yu scoffed.

"Tch! Who knows? Maybe he's on too many drugs."

Liu Yu said this to vent his frustration, but he also felt to some extent that rich kids like He Xiangchen would do such things.

His words, however, made Li Qing think deeply.

Taking drugs...

Li Qing recalled He Xiangchen's eyes, which emitted an eerie light in the darkness.

He was terrified at the time, thinking he had encountered a ghost, but now he wonders if it was a side effect of taking too many drugs.

wrong!

How do you explain those things that can't be seen?

Immersed in grief and shock, Li Qing finally remembered to think about these key questions, and her already imaginative brain worked hard at this moment.

The sadness faded, but a sense of dread slowly crept in. Was He Xiangchen really human?

Li Qing blinked. He had stopped crying. He could still hear He Xiangchen knocking on the door and talking incessantly. He couldn't hear clearly, but the images in his mind began to take on a fantastical quality.

Liu Yu was still indignant. After talking for a while, he saw that Li Qing did not respond. He was wondering why Li Qing was not talking when he finally noticed the thumping sound that he had been ignoring.

"What's that noise coming from your house? Why is it so noisy?"

Li Qing was brought back to reality from her fantastical daydream when Liu Yu asked her that question.

He then replied in a low voice, "...It's outside my house. He Xiangchen has arrived."

"What?!"

Liu Yu's voice on the other end of the phone instantly rose eight octaves!

"Damn it! Don't you dare open the door for him! You hear me?! These kinds of people are the best at pretending!"

There was no need for Liu Yu to specifically instruct him on this; Li Qing would never open the door for He Xiangchen under any circumstances.

Li Qing didn't tell Liu Yu about what happened at the banquet last night, otherwise Liu Yu probably wouldn't have told him not to open the door, but would have called the police for him.

The two chatted in silence for a while longer.

With Liu Yu around, Li Qing wouldn't be lost in his own wild thoughts, becoming more and more frightened the more he thought about it.

But Liu Yu was studying abroad, and she couldn't stay on the phone with Li Qing forever. Not long after, there was a rustling sound coming from Liu Yu's end, as if she was packing her things.

"I have to go to class soon, we'll talk later. You better stay calm and don't let that guy fool you back with just a few words! You hear me!"

"Okay, I understand."

Li Qing nodded repeatedly, his voice nasal. Liu Yu didn't need to look to know that Li Qing's eyes were probably as big as walnuts.

After hanging up the phone, Li Qing felt much better than before.

At this moment, he also realized that he might have been overthinking things.

He Xiangchen shouldn't be a monster.

Superpowers or something like that seem more fitting.

Shaking his head, Li Qing relaxed a little, but then he couldn't resist the drowsiness any longer.

He didn't get home until after 1 a.m., then took a shower and watched TV, finally falling asleep around 3 or 4 a.m. He woke up again around 8 a.m., so he only slept for a total of four or five hours, which is why he was so tired.

The noise outside the door continued, but Li Qing couldn't hear it anymore. He snuggled into the blanket and fell asleep completely in no time.

This time, he slept relatively soundly and didn't have any nightmares.

When he woke up, it was already completely dark.

The room was dark, with only a sliver of city neon light filtering through the curtains. Li Qing sat up groggily, feeling as if the whole world had fallen silent.

The noise outside the door stopped, and He Xiangchen seemed not to knock on the door again.

"Coo coo—"

His stomach growled, his stomach was empty, and it finally began to protest. Only then did Li Qing realize that he hadn't eaten anything all day.

He threw off the covers, got out of bed, slipped on his slippers, opened the bedroom door, turned on the light, and then tiptoed to the doorway.

Open the door lock and turn on the camera.

The motion-activated lights in the corridor were off, and there was no one outside.

Seeing this, Li Qing reached out and moved the dining chair that was blocking the door, took a few deep breaths, and carefully opened the door a crack.

I glanced around and saw that the corridor was indeed empty.

It seems that He Xiangchen has really given up.

Li Qing lowered his eyes, unable to tell whether he felt disappointed or relieved. He leaned against the door for a while, then slapped his face hard to stop thinking about these things.

The most urgent task is to fill our stomachs.

Li Qing put on her shoes, preparing to go out to the nearby supermarket to buy some groceries, as there was nothing left to eat at home. But as soon as she stepped out the door, Li Qing stopped.

While he was chatting with Liu Yu, he had already made up his mind to leave the capital and return to his hometown.

Thinking back on her time in the capital, she realized that she had hardly spent any of the money she had worked so hard to earn on herself. Most of it had been spent on He Xiangchen in various ways, buying him clothes, food, and gifts, even though he was much richer than her.