Chapter 57 - Feeling Desperate (2/2)

If he doesn’t reveal his true identity, then he could not get back the condo. How can he watch and let ChenYing die? But if he got the condo back?… He fell into a deep contradiction.

His cell phone once again rang in the dark. ZhouXiang was afraid that it would awaken ChenYing; it had already taken her a long time to fall asleep, so he quickly picked up. The call was from CaiWei.

He took the call and went into the kitchen, closing the door and lightly whispered, “Wei Ge.”

“Is everything done?” CaiWei’s voice was a bit heavy.

ZhouXiang “hmm” a sound. Being trapped in such an endless desperate dilemma, he really wanted to hug and cry with CaiWei.

“How… how did it go?”

ZhouXiang’s voice trembled, “It’s uremia.”

CaiWei sighed heavily and didn’t say anything for a long time.

ZhouXiang faintly muttered, “I’m going to take another day off. Right now I’m really….”

CaiWei sighed, “You don’t have to come this week. Just stay home and be with your mother. Your mother… her life is too hard.”

ZhouXiang hoarsely responded, “Yea, she is……”

CaiWei was silent for a long while, “Ah Xiang, Wei Ge’s ability is really limited. I can give you ¥50,000.”

ZhouXiang chocked up emotionally, “Wei Ge, I can’t pay you back……”

“I don’t intend for you to pay it back unless you get rich later on. Uremia is an illness that needs a lot of money. I know that this money can’t solve the bigger issue. I’ll ask President Wang. President Wang can help you a little more.”

ZhouXiang honestly couldn’t refuse anything. He really needed the money now so he can only respond with, “Wei Ge, thank you.”

CaiWei is also working for someone else. For him to loosen his wallet and be so generous to a completely unrelated person whom he had only met for less than half a year, ZhouXiang had no idea how to thank him. From the time he opened his eyes till now, CaiWei had been helping and taking care of him. If there are any positives from getting a new life, it is being able to meet CaiWei again.

After hanging up the phone, ZhouXiang stayed a long time in the kitchen. His legs began to feel sore but he felt that such a small space gave him a sense of security.

At this moment, the phone rang again. It was Assistant Jiang calling. ZhouXiang didn’t want to offend him so he took the call. He didn’t expect YanMingXiu’s gloomy voice to sound through the other line, “You deliberately not pick up my phone?”

ZhouXiang’s head buzzed. He subconsciously responded, “No… Didn’t see it.”

“Then you see it now?”

“……Yea……is something the matter?” ZhouXiang’s tone was low, sounding weak and dispirited.

“What happened to you? Still not sober?”

ZhouXiang really hoped that everything that is happening now is just illusion from the alcohol, but unfortunately it is not.

He forcefully smiled, “(I’m) Sober. Why is President Yan looking for me?”

“I want you to come to my place right now.”

“Why?”

“No particular reason. I want to see you.” In YanMingXiu’s eyes, ZhouXiang is still an unknown newbie who certainly wouldn’t dare to offend him.

ZhouXiang’s voice trembled, “President Yan, I’m extremely not well today. I’m not going to go out. How about another day?”

“Where are you? I’ll have Xiao Jiang pick you up.”

ZhouXiang’s thoughts were in chaos. Every sentence that YanMingXiu said made him impatient. He responded irritably, “I don’t know. I don’t have time to see you. I don’t have time. I don’t have the energy. YanMingXiu. Don’t fucking torment me!” After he said that, he hung up the phone.

At this time, he didn’t care whether or not he said anything wrong nor offended YanMingXiu. He felt that his heart and lungs are going to explode. When he talked to YanMingXiu, there seemed to be a sense of awareness constantly reminding him that this was the person who forced him into desperation with no choice but to join the documentary filming group. Otherwise he would not have died. He would still be living naturally and freely with his true identity as ZhouXiang… not having to experience all this ……all this that made him feel immense pain.

It is him!

ZhouXiang didn’t want to talk to him; didn’t want to see him; didn’t want to touch him. He hoped that all the things related to YanMingXiu would completely disappear in this world so that he would never remember them.

If YanMingXiu liked him at the beginning, everything will be different, and all this sorrow wouldn’t have happened.

He never hated YanMingXiu as much as he did in this moment.