Chapter 168: Episode 168: A Reluctant Vacation
Zhou Xueyin sprinted toward the elevator, but they were all stopped at the first floor—to wait was out of the question!
She pulled open the stairwell door, ready to take the stairs up to the ninth floor.
Due to her urgency and her high heels, as she descended to the twelfth floor, Zhou Xueyin’s foot slipped, almost sending her tumbling down the stairs.
Fortunately, she managed to grab hold of the handrail on the wall in time. Yet her foot was twisted so violently that she couldn’t even muster the strength to stand up.
"Hello? Xiaojing... I’m in the stairwell on the twelfth floor. You go to the front desk first, check if the courier has come to pick up the package. If not, find that idiotic courier and get the package back. If it’s been taken, hurry and have the front desk call the courier back, we need to retrieve that stupid delivery!" Zhou Xueyin, having no choice after her fall, called Wei Jingzhu to help her out.
"What’s wrong with you? You sound really weak," Wei Jingzhu noted Zhou Xueyin’s intermittent speech and her sharp intakes of breath, sensing that she wasn’t in a good state.
"Never mind me for now, just go to the front desk and look for the courier... that’s more urgent! Hurry, thanks!" Zhou Xueyin urged Wei Jingzhu.
She tried to change her position to sit on the stairs and rest, but every movement sent drilling pain from her right ankle, pain so intense it caused her whole body to break into cold sweats, pain that cramped her stomach...
"Huff... huff..." Zhou Xueyin took deep breaths, trying to acclimate to the pain.
Shortly after, her phone rang; it was Wei Jingzhu: "Hello? Yinyin, I’ve got the courier package back, don’t worry. Where are you now?"
"I’m in the stairwell on the right side of the twelfth floor... Thanks a lot," Zhou Xueyin said weakly, her ankle was throbbing painfully...