Chapter 10 (2/2)
“Did you call his company and ask yet? Li Chuan is a workaholic and wouldn’t easily disappear from work”
“I don’t knohere he works” I confessed
Ji Huan was startled for a bit and asked with a laugh, “He gave you his cell phone number, but didn’t tell you where he worked?”
“I never asked”
He stared at ain for a bit as if he couldn’t believe it, and then said, “I have his office number, do you want me to call and ask?”
“Would that trouble you?”
“It’s nothing”
He entered a nu you so anxious, why don’t you ask yourself”
This time, the phone was connected and answered within two seconds, “CGP Architects, hello”
It was the sweet voice of a young fe Li Chuan”
“May I ask which company the lady is fro for hi”
“Oh, please wait a moment”
I heard silence on the other end After ten seconds, an unfa very perfect Mandarin
“Miss, I a’s work assistant May I ask what the lady’s name is?”
“My surna for Mr Li Chuan for?”
“Can Mr wang not coht now?” I returned with a question
“Mr wang’s is not feeling to well He didn’t couessed right, and thenZe Garden Li Chuan…Mr wang…is not ho happen to hiical, because hts Could he have suffered internal injuries? Could his internal organs have suddenly he? Could he have fainted at home?
The person was quiet for aFinally he said, “Mr wang is currently in the hospital”
“Which hospital?”
“I’ does not wish to be disturbed” It appeared that he thought his voice was a bit too fir you would like passed on, I a”
No coht over what he said and my heart became a bit cold
“There isn’t” I said, “There’s nothing I want to say Goodbye”
I hungup, and handed the cell phone back to Ji Huan, “Than you Li Chuan is in the hospital”
“In the hospital?” Ji Huan said, “I’ve know hiet sick”
“I still have class in the afternoon, I take my leave” Ji Huan’s looked as if he still had questions, but I didn’t want to say any up ot on the bus, and absent-ot off the bus, I saw a park and sat down to cry alone in the park At night I went to the café to work Everything was as it was before No one saw throughLi Chuan’s shi+rt, unable to sleep for a long tiain For the whole entire month after that, I didn’t see him
I did pretty well on h it was fifty points off froet, my score was still way ahead of the others inEr also realized that I had beco Yu fund, I studied even ently The classmates in my dorm room had teased me about my short romance and weren’t very supportive They had already expected this Although, at one point, Lu Jie co to her email I said that Li Chuan was sick and she didn’t ask any an excuse
Besides the weekends, I still went to the café every night But I didn’t see Li Chuan at all Xiao Ye’s hatred towards“a bit” because she was still indifferent towards me But she also didn’t pick atwork, she would sit alone with her elbows on the table and beconored her Li Chuan was the object of irls’ infatuations Perhaps I was just the luckiest out of all of them
There were still teeks before people took off in chaos for school break I thought of ive Father a certificate frootten the scholarshi+p My father still insisted on sending me money every month He knehat he sent wasn’tBut he wrote to say, Daddy can only do this much A little support is still a little Try not to work if you can, school work is the most important That was a Monday When I received Dad’s letter, I though, I must try my best to study in these teeks Then I can rest properly when I return to Yunnan for vacation However, I passed by the administrative office that day and chanced upon the president walking towards nize reeted me, “Classmate!”
“President Liu”
“Where is your proposal? When can I see it?” He asked
That night, I wrote a proposal in earnest I suddenly rereed to edit my proposal So I asked Lu Jie for his email Actually I didn’t just hope for hi it as an excuse to ask hoas doing Whether he was out of the hospital yet I went to the internet café and signed up for a Yahoo elish:
“hello, Li Chuan Long tied from the hospital yet? I wrote a proposal, if it’s convenient, can you help me edit it? Thanks, Xiao Qiu”
I wrote it offhandedly and sent it In that retted it All of this was already going to be left unresolved Why did I want to go and look for hi to look for him Even if the ehtless Wasn’t I the one who caused hiet sick? I scolded myself
On Tuesday, I had an io to the internet café to check eht, when I opened my mailbox, I saw a reply I hadn’t even opened the email to look at the contents beforeone First he helped ed every sentence The word count after he edited it far surpassed inal word count And then he said he was still in the hospital It was pneu me The hospital also didn’t permit electronics, so he couldn’t make a call And then he said he didn’t want me to see hied
I immediately replied, “Li Chuan, I want to see you now!!!” I added three exclamation points
After a second, I received his reply, “No”
I would not back down, and wrote, “Tellinfected”
He replied again, “No er