Chapter 30 Part1 (2/2)

“You even know how to talk back now!”  Her mom held the cell phone screen facing her.

Even her hand was shaking with anger.  “I ask you.  Which one is your boyfriend?”

The picture taken by a fan on screen kept shaking.  Actually, she couldn’t see clearly where

he was and soon grew irritated at the vigorously shaking phone.  She simply turned her head,

ignoring it.

Her mom became angrier.  “You don’t want to tell me?”  She pulled out a record on the phone

log, one that she had used to call home before.  “Is it this one?”

The number was when she used Xu Jimo’s cell phone to call home to report her whereabouts.

If she knew that it would create so much trouble for herself, then she wouldn’t have listened to

him to make such an unnecessary call to home……

It was too late for her to regret it.  “Mom……”

Her mom dialed the number and put the phone near her ear.  “I don’t care which one he is in

the picture.  You break up with him immediately, right now.”

She could not believe it.  “Mom, what are you doing!”

The tone in her mother’s voice was absolute, “You don’t like the Pei family’s son.  So do you

just randomly find a guy from street to p.i.s.s me off?  Haven’t you heard what I said?  Mom’s

demanding you that you break up immediately.”

Suddenly, she forgot to resist, forgot to argue and refute, and didn’t even want to beg.  It was

back to the night when she ran away from home.  An empty stone paved path around a pond

was in front of her.  She was listening to the noisy and annoying chirping of summer insects.

There was no room for negotiation nor possibility of discussion.  There was only coercion

coming from her closest blood relations.

How did it come to this?  All her past endeavors, stooping to compromise and pretend that

everything was going well, but her situation was growing worse and worse.

The call went through.  Xu Jimo’s voice came from the other end.  It was so familiar.  Her

tears fell down instantly the moment she heard his voice.  She felt wronged but she couldn’t

tell him.  She could only take a quick, deep breath, trying to hold back all her sadness.

Xu Jimo tried to call her,  “Qianxi?”

“Uhm……”  Her voice carried the crying tone.  “It’s me.”

Her mom’s face was rigid.  Apparently she didn’t have much patience, waiting for her to go

straight to the point.

She couldn’t control her tears this time, despite being able to hold it back numerous times

before.  She called his name in a hoa.r.s.e voice.  “Xu Jimo……”  Suddenly, she couldn’t hold

it in anymore and started to cry.

“I’m here.”

It was awfully quiet at the KG base.  Xu Jimo leaned on balcony by himself talking on the

phone.  He heard intermittent depressed and noisy chirps of the cicadas.

The moonlight was very nice tonight.  He thought about her situation right now and was not

in the mood to enjoy the moonglight.

Her depressed sobbing voice come through the phone.  She was enduring it hard.

“Don’t cry.  Good girl.”

Translated by Team DHH at dhh-workshop.blogspot.com

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