Chapter 20: My heart is no longer beating, my mind is no longer wavering

The Peninsula Apartments, Kowloon.

The car window was half-lowered, and the pale yellow light from the street lamp leaked into the back seat through the gap.

Rong Shaoting exhaled smoke slowly, "When will you return to Pingjiang?"

"Maybe tomorrow." Su Ti looked at the man in the dim light, "What's wrong, Mr. Rong?"

Rong Shaoting glanced sideways.

The color of those eyes was even deeper and more distant than the night that had just fallen. "It's okay, go back."

Suti said "oh" and said goodbye.

When getting off the bus, he walked slowly, glancing at the next seat from the corner of his eye.

Just for a moment, Rong Shaoting seemed to have something to say.

But for some reason, I didn't say it out loud.

Suti deliberately slowed down her pace, but unfortunately the person in the back seat remained silent.

Did she feel wrong?
Su Ti recalled several unusual things that happened to her tonight and suspected that the restaurant was selling fake wine.

Otherwise, why would everything be abnormal?

Su Ti took two steps forward with doubt in her mind.

Suddenly, the cell phone in the bag rang.

It's a text message.

Su Ti took a look, raised her eyebrows and turned back.

The business car is still parked there.

Rong Shaoting saw Su Ti walking back through the car window, and his eyes deepened.

Su Ti came to the window, half bent over, and waved her phone at the man, "Mr. Rong, can you please leave me your contact information?"

As she spoke, she stared straight at Rong Shaoting.

I was afraid that he would say, "Call Chen Bai if you have any questions."

The man's finger holding the cigarette pressed the window-down button.

When all the car windows were rolled down, a pure black mobile phone was handed out from inside.

Rong Shaoting said nothing, but gave the answer with practical actions.

Su Ti smiled, took the unlocked phone, entered her own number, and pressed the call button.

The operation was completed, and she handed the phone back, "Good night, Mr. Rong."

The man nodded slightly, glanced at her clear eyes, and blurted out the words of instruction, "It will rain in Hong Kong tomorrow. If it is inconvenient to return, please call Chen Bai at any time."

Su Ti's heartbeat was disordered for a second, and she was slightly distracted.

Rong Shaoting is really considerate and thoughtful, and...he takes extra care of her.

Is this the charm of a mature man?
She remembered that the brother-in-law whom she had never met was also older than her sister.

Suti's imagination ran wild.

The man sitting in the car, looking at her expression, curled his lips and said in a low voice: "Since you are Jingze's friend, you don't have to be polite while you are in Hong Kong."

After hearing this, Suti’s heart stopped beating and her mind was no longer shaken.

He smiled and said, "Thank you, good night."

After all the fuss, it turns out that the special treatment all came from Liang Jingze.

Su Ti scratched her bangs, turned her back, and walked quickly into the apartment building.

inside the car.

Rong Shaoting looked at her back with tender eyes, with an invisible curve on the side of his lips.

Chen Bai sat in the driver's seat without saying a word.

I was thinking to myself, is it really because of Mr. Liang that Mr. Su is so favored by me?
He didn't believe it.

After a while, Chen Bai turned his head and asked, "Mr. Rong, are we going back now?"

Rong Shaoting raised the car window and said, "Go to Bo Lao Road."

Chen Bai understood.

Today is Saturday. Mr. Rong goes to 21 Borrett Road every two weeks.

The car drove out of the apartment.

Rong Shaoting opened his mobile phone and saw the new name stored on the communication page at a glance.

【Yitong Internet-Suti】

The man pursed his lips, tapped the button with his fingertips, and re-edited it.

"What did you just send her?" Rong Shaoting asked suddenly.

Chen Bai pretended to be dumbfounded, "I didn't send a message to Miss Su, Mr. Rong."

A deathly silence spread in the carriage.

Rong Shaoting said nothing more, just looked out the window with amusement.

Chen Bai waited for a while, and when he saw that the man didn't say anything else, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Mr. Rong didn't even warn him not to meddle in other people's business.

In fact, the text message that Suti received when she got off the bus was sent by him secretly. …

Starting in the second half of the night, heavy rain arrived as expected.

The next morning, Suti woke up sleepily.

When I opened the curtains, I saw that the whole city was raining heavily and filled with fog.

Rong Shaoting’s mouth must have been blessed.

It really rained when he said it would.

Suti wrapped herself in a bathrobe and opened her mobile phone to check the flight information.

As expected, all airlines' scheduled flights were delayed or cancelled.

Suti closed the page.

I comforted myself by thinking that it was only nine o'clock in the morning and maybe it would stop in the afternoon.

She took out the snacks that Jiang Chen had bought yesterday from the refrigerator, chewed a few cookies and potato chips, took some cold medicine, and went back to her bedroom to catch up on some sleep.

In the afternoon, the rain...was getting heavier.

News bulletin: [Affected by Typhoon Haikui, heavy rain fell across Hong Kong. The SAR issued a weather warning signal at 10 a.m., notifying all districts to take emergency measures and asking citizens to minimize going out...]

Su Ti slowly typed a question mark.

Outside the window, dark clouds were gathering and heavy rain was pouring down.

There is no sign of the rain stopping.

Su Ti was so hungry that her stomach was sticking to her back.

She only stayed in this apartment occasionally and didn't put any food in the refrigerator.

Su Ti took out the biscuits and potato chips she had in the morning and ate them while calling Jiang Chen.

Unable to get through.

Su Ti: “…”

When you open the food delivery platform, most restaurants have stopped accepting orders.

Even for businesses that can deliver food, the delivery time shown is over 2 hours.

Su Ti was speechless again.

In a flash, what Rong Shaoting said last night came to mind.

Suti stroked the screen, hesitantly.

Is it appropriate to always trouble others?

Never mind. It’s better to trouble others than to starve to death.

After several seconds of struggling between conscience and desire, Su Ti finally decided to ask Chen Bai for help.

However, the call has not yet been made.

An unexpected call lit up the screen at just the right moment.

【Mr. Rong】

With a thump, something fell from a great height into my heart.

Su Ti had no time to care about anything else. She raised her phone to her ear and called him softly, "Mr. Rong."

It was unusually quiet on the other end of the receiver.

Along with the sound of a lighter clicking, the man's mellow voice came into my ears, "In the apartment?"

Suti hummed.

Maybe it was the effect of the nasal tone, the faint reply sounded aggrieved.

Rong Shaoting was silent for a moment, "Have you eaten?"

"Yes." Su Ti looked at the coffee table, "Biscuits, potato chips..."

A faint sigh escaped from the man's throat, almost inaudible.

He said, "Get dressed and come to the underground parking lot, Area B."

Su Ti was stunned. Before she could ask any more questions, the phone was hung up.

Five minutes later, in the underground parking lot.

Alpha stopped at the elevator entrance with the back door open. Rong Shaoting, wearing a thin shirt and trousers, stood near the elevator entrance with one hand in his pocket.

Su Ti walked up to the man with her hands wrapped in a windbreaker, looked up and called out, "Mr. Rong, why are you here?"

It was obvious that she came down in a hurry.

Her pretty fair face was not made up, and her long hair was casually tied into a high ponytail, with two strands left behind her ears.

The laces of the pair of white shoes on his feet hung loosely on the shoe surface.

This look is completely different from the one she had carefully dressed up yesterday.

As pure and clean as a schoolgirl, even though a little sloppy.

Rong Shaoting took a quick look and answered her, "A typhoon landed today. I happened to be passing by after finishing my work, so I came to take a look."

When Su Ti heard this, her doubts were dispelled.

She remembered that Chen Bai said yesterday that Rong Shaoting had an appointment with someone in the morning.

(End of this chapter)