Chapter 274 Thorny Rose (31)
Chapter 274 Thorny Rose (31)
Yan Zhen returned to her rented apartment. Considering that Song Yi might not give up so easily, and that he knew where she lived, she called the landlady to ask to move to another apartment to prevent him from bothering her.
The landlady was quite agreeable and agreed to move Yan Zhen to another rental apartment.
Yan Zhen packed her few belongings and moved overnight.
The next day, Yan Zhen went to work as usual.
As expected, when she got off work in the evening, she saw Song Yi waiting downstairs at Fei Fei's house.
Song Yi didn't know how long he had been waiting there. His face was blue from the cold wind. When he saw Yan Zhen, he immediately stood up from his squatting position.
But his legs went numb from squatting for too long, and he fell down as soon as he stood up. Then he looked up at Yan Zhen pitifully.
Yan Zhen pretended not to see him and walked past him without looking at him.
Song Yi immediately got up, limped after her, and grabbed her arm: "Lin Xun..."
Yan Zhen tried to pull her arm away twice, but failed. Feeling Song Yi trembling from her arm, she had a headache: "Was I not clear enough, or did you not hear me?"
"..." Song Yi lowered his eyes, his expression full of grievance.
If Yan Zhen didn't know what kind of person he was, he might have been fooled by his innocent and pitiful appearance.
But after learning what he had done, she became suspicious and wary of his apparent "vulnerability".
"let go."
Song shook his head, refusing to let go.
Yan Zhen gritted her teeth and tried to pull her arm out like pulling up a radish, but Song Yi was much stronger than she had imagined, and she couldn't break free at all.
The two struggled for two or three rounds until Yan Zhen's arm ached from pulling so hard that he hissed, and Song Yi reluctantly let go.
Yan Zhen left quickly.
Song Yi immediately followed.
Yan Zhen initially didn't want to talk to him, but after the bus arrived at the station, Song Yi followed her onto the bus without any change on him.
After the bus driver reminded her, "Hey little girl in the back, you didn't pay or scan the code," Song Yi nudged Yan Zhen twice with her elbow, signaling her to pay.
Yan Zhen turned her face away, pretending not to know him.
Seeing that one of the two was pretending to be stupid and the other was pretending to be dead, the driver raised his voice: "You can't ride without paying."
Yan Zhen remained unmoved; she would be extremely grateful if the driver could kick her out.
Seeing that Yan Zhen refused to help, Song Yi turned to a young man standing next to her, blinked, and said in a low voice, "Brother, I forgot to bring any money with me, and my phone is dead. Could you give me two yuan for a bus ride home?"
The pretty young woman asked for help, and it was only a matter of two yuan. How could the man refuse? He readily scanned the code with his phone and paid the fare for her.
Yan Zhen: "..."
Song Yi, where's your face?
The two of them were silent all the way.
After the train arrived at the station, Yan Zhen got off the train, and Song Yi quickly followed.
He was like a piece of chewing gum; if he continued following, his new place would be exposed. Yan Zhen had no choice but to stop: "Song Yi, that's enough. The way you're acting makes us look like a couple having a fight. I'm so..."
Yan Zhen racked his brains, trying to find a suitable adjective.
"I'm sorry," Song Yi said first, "It's all my fault."
Yan Zhen: "..."
While Song Yi verbally apologized, his actions contradicted his words: "Let's pretend yesterday's incident never happened, and continue to get along like before, okay?"
"Do you think that's possible?"
Song Yi: "...Then what do I have to do for you to forgive me?"
“You don’t need me to forgive you. I don’t have those kinds of feelings for you. Even if I forgive you, we won’t develop in that direction. What you need to do now is to cut your losses.” Yan Zhen said, “You don’t want to pretend that yesterday’s events never happened. You want to pretend that I never existed.”
"No!" Song Yi refused decisively. "I can't do it."
Yan Zhen: "...What do you want?"
Song Yi hesitated for a moment: "I want to go back to the time before yesterday."
Yan Zhen sneered: "Back to before yesterday, you could continue to touch, kiss, and harass me without restraint under the guise of friendship, right? I'm not arguing with you because you're a girl. If you were a man and did something so lewd, I would have killed you long ago."
Upon hearing this, Song Yi couldn't help but shudder: "...I'm sorry."
“Go back now, and don’t come back again,” Yan Zhen said. “I’ll pick up my things from Dexian Building when school starts. As for the homework you left here, I’ll send it to you via same-city express delivery tomorrow.”
After Yan Zhen finished speaking, she walked away quickly without waiting for Song Yi's reply.
Song Yi made a move to follow, but Yan Zhen suddenly turned around and said sharply, "Don't follow me!!!"
Song Yi was startled and stopped in his tracks.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yan Zhen ran off in a flash.
To prevent Song Yi from following him, Yan Zhen circled around the neighborhood several times, walking until he was breathless and almost had an asthma attack before finally returning to his new residence.
However, the next morning, when Yan Zhen got up to go to work, she opened the door of her rented room and was startled to see Song Yi squatting at the door.
Song Yi huddled by the door, arms crossed, still wearing the same clothes as yesterday, clearly having spent the whole night there.
How did he find us?
Just as Yan Zhen had this thought, he remembered what Song Yi had done to Sun Yue and Qi Su. Finding her residence would be a piece of cake for him.
The temperature in the hallway was very low at night, and Song Yi's cheeks were red and her lips were chapped from the cold, clearly indicating that she had a fever and was sick.
Hearing Yan Zhen open the door, he looked up, his expression pitiful like a puppy being kicked out by its owner.
He slowly got up, his movements sluggish.
Yan Zhen did not reach out to help him up, but watched helplessly as he slowly got up. He murmured "Lin Xun" before swaying and collapsing unconscious.
Yan Zhen: "..."
Ten minutes later, with the help of a neighbor, Yan Zhen moved the feverish Song Yi into a taxi and took him to the hospital.
On the way, Yan Zhen called the Song family's housekeeper and told him the location of the hospital.
Upon arriving at the hospital, Yan Zhen opened the car door, dragged the unconscious Song Yi out of the car, and carried her on his back.
Seeing that she was struggling to carry it, the taxi driver was about to get out of the car to help her when Yan Zhen immediately said, "No need, please wait for me a moment."
After she finished speaking, she gritted her teeth, carried Song Yi to the security booth at the hospital entrance, pushed open the door, and put him on the chair in the booth without saying a word.
Upon seeing this, the security guard on duty quickly asked, "Is the person sick? Take them to the hospital! What are you doing leaving them here?"
Song Yi was only slightly taller than Yan Zhen, but much heavier than Yan Zhen had imagined. Yan Zhen was panting heavily as he carried him for twenty or thirty meters.
After finally catching her breath, she took two steps back, stepped one foot out of the guard post, and said quickly, "His name is Song Yi. I've already notified his family, and he'll be here in ten minutes—thank you for your help."
After saying that, Yan Zhen turned around, darted out of the guard post like a rabbit, and jumped into the taxi with the door open.
"Master, let's go!"
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