178 Are you asleep? (2/2)
Liling cursed beneath her breath. She had dialed Xin Yong's line for the tenth time but she was not picking. Giving up, she threw her phone to the other side of the bed.
It was ten o'clock in the night but it was not yet very late, Xin Yong she knew, did not sleep so early, It was either that her phone was on 'do not disturb' mode or she was doing something under the sheets!
A blush crept up her cheeks as she thought of that. She quickly lifted the blanket over her head.
Her mind slowly drifted over to the only other person in the quiet house. She wondered if he was asleep.
After dinner that night, he had helped her do the dishes, after which he went up to his study. She wanted to join him but on a second thought, she decided to let him work.
All the times she accompanied him in the study, he always abandoned his work half way; and again, he came back very early, he must have a lot of work to do.
'It was three hours since he went into his room, he might be free by now.'
Thinking about it, Liling searched for her phone where she had abandoned it and quickly sent him a text.
” Baby, are you through with work? ”
Liu Wei stared at the text on his phone. He had been lying on his bed unable to sleep for the past thirty minutes, and just as he was about to send her a message, asking if she was asleep, he received hers.
A smile crept up his lips, and he immediately dialed her number.
Liling nearly jumped up from her bed when she saw Liu Wei's contact on her phone screen.
Her heart started racing rapidly, and she could not even bring herself to pick the call.
After the third ring, she shakily swiped up, picking up the call.
”Hey...”
Liu Wei asked as soon as the call connected, there was no reply from the other end, then he asked again.
”Are you asleep? ”
Hearing that, Liling coughed lightly and replied;
”No, are you?”
”Yeah, I'm currently speaking to you from a dream. ”
The both of them burst out laughing at Liu Wei's joke. After the laughter subsided, Liu Wei asked again;
”Can you come over? it's kind of cold here...”
”Yes!... oh, I mean, yeah, I can...”
Liling nearly bit her tongue for replying so fast. She felt her dignity crying as it crumbled to the floor.
”Okay...”
”Yeah, okay.”
Liling stared at the screen for sometime before cutting the call. She quickly picked up two pillows and hugged it to her chest then scurried out of the room.
”Knock, knock, knock”
Liu Wei stood up from the bed and walked over to the door, pulling it open.
His glassy eyes immediately fell on a petite woman hugging two big pillows to her chests.
”Hi...”
”Hi... ”