Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
How laughable. Wu Man mocked herself in her heart. She was already so old, but when she was sad, she only had one friend to confide in. What made her even sadder was.., when her friend heard this request, she was obviously in a difficult position. “I’m sorry, my dear. The child at home is in a bad mood. It wasn’t easy to appease him, so he might not want to go…”
Wu Man could naturally understand. Most of her friends were already married and had children. Their focus had long shifted to their family. She was the only one who had no children. She looked glamorous on the outside, but in reality, she was working as a slave in the Lin family!
Speaking of which, the salary of a civil servant was well-regulated. The advantage was that it was stable. If she used it on herself, she would be quite wealthy. However, after so many years, the money she earned from her work was all spent by the Lin family! Right now, she did not have any savings on hand. The only money she had was the compensation for her dismissal. Even then, she would have to wait until her salary was paid next month before she could use it.
Without money, nowhere to go, and no friends, at this moment, she was simply like a stray dog. She did not dare to return to her parents’ house. She did not have the face to face her parents, and she did not want to return to the Lin family and see the expressions on those people’s faces again.
Where could she find a place that belonged to herself? A sense of loneliness welled up in her heart. She wanted to go out with her friends to relax, but now she was not in the mood at all. She used the little money she had to book a room in a hotel and casually threw her things on the floor.
After entering the room, she turned off her phone and ran to the bathroom to get cold water to wash her face. Her eyes were swollen like walnuts, but she did not care at all. She threw her body onto the soft bed. The bitterness and fatigue over the past few days made her want to escape constantly. The moment she touched the bed, these feelings turned into heavy sleepiness. Wu Man hugged the pillow and quickly fell asleep.
She slept soundly in the hotel. The hotel staff would deliver food to her every day. Wu Man finished her food in a daze and fell back to sleep on the bed. In the blink of an eye, three days passed like this. On the afternoon of the third day, Wu Man was woken up from her sleep by a series of knocking sounds that came from the door.
The thick curtains blocked all the light. In the darkness, she subconsciously reached for her phone. When she grabbed it, she realized that she had turned off her phone for the past few days. She did not look at the time and went to open the door with messy hair. This was the scene that Li Dongsheng saw when she opened the door.
Wu Man had not washed and dressed properly in the past few days. Her hair was messy, her eyes were drowsy, and her clothes were untidy. Her loose clothes looked a little messy. After opening the door, she took a while to identify who he was. It seemed that she was still drowsy.
“Why aren’t you picking up your phone?” Li Dongsheng, who did not mind Wu Man’s appearance at all, asked gently. Not only that, but he also felt that the person in front of him was rather cute. The anxiety that he felt from being unable to find her disappeared the moment he saw her. Li Dongsheng could not even breathe or blame her.
“My phone is out of battery,” Wu man answered in a muffled voice. She had slept for a long time, even her voice had become hoarse.
“It’s good that you’re okay. Everyone has been looking for you for the past few days.” Li Dongsheng smiled helplessly. “You didn’t even tell me before you left so that I could rest assured.”
Wu Man had already turned her phone on and charged it. Looking at the messages and missed calls, Wu Man’s expression became increasingly gloomy. Many of the messages were sent by Lin Ziqian, and there were also a lot of missed calls.
Li Dongsheng strolled behind Wu Man and happened to see Wu Man flipping through the phone records. He coughed and said, “Those missed calls… They were from me..”