461 Know Thy Heart 4 (1/2)

He stopped typing and stared at the message from Song Qingchun. Then, his brows creased into a light frown.

She asked why he was not yet home, not if he had returned home.

Still not home… how did she know I'm still not home? She's there?

Su Zhinian's frown deepened and deleted the message he was typing. He thought it about and abandoned the messaging altogether. Instead, he gave Song Qingchun a call.

The phone rang twice before it was picked up. Song Qingchun's dulcet tone then drifted through. ”Hello?”

Su Zhinian didn't say anything but focused on the situation on Song Qingchun's end.

”Why aren't you talking?” Song Qingchun asked after she waited for him to speak for a few seconds.

As Song Qingchun's voice came through the line, Su Zhinian heard the voice of a middle-aged man. He was very familiar with that voice. He would hear it every day at home. It was the voice of the owner two doors down from him, calling his daughter to come down for dinner, so he was right.

Su Zhinian wanted to ask, 'Are you at my place?'

But the words merely reached his throat. He realized she couldn't hear the sounds that he could hear, so he changed the question. ”…How did you know I'm not home?”

Su Zhinian purposely paused for a second; before Song Qingchun could answer, he asked in a mock-questioning tone, ”Are you at my place again?”

Song Qingchun then realized the message that she had sent were a huge give-away. She was directly telling him she was indeed at his place. Song Qingchun gripped her phone tightly and uttered a soft, ”Yes.”