Chapter 7: Call the police
Li Lanni chatted with a few of her classmates. While most of them were friendly to her, some of them seemed distant. She didn’t mind. It was expected.
By the time she realized that it was getting late, she had drunk quite a bit. Not wanting to get too drunk, she went out for a breather.
Ji Feifei was yet to return. Where the hell did she go? She wondered whether she could get a cab if she looked for one. She was definitely not intending to wait for too long. If anything, Ji Feifei might take advantage of her slight drunkenness. Who knew what that pretender could do when given such a golden chance?
Now she regretted agreeing to come in Ji Feifei’s car. She should have just asked for the venue and let a chauffeur drive her here. But then again, that would make it obvious that she did not want to be close to Ji Feifei and that would definitely not help her find any of the answers she was seeking.
She was still wondering whether to wait a little more or just hail a cab on her own when her phone lit up. The caller was Ji Feifei. She had insistently saved her own phone number on Li Lanni’s new phone.
Li Lanni received it with a sigh.
"Lanni, help!"
Li Lanni held her phone away from her ear with a cringe. She only brought it back when the scream stopped. "What happened?"
"I... I’ve been robbed and... and..." she sobbed. Her voice was pitiful and hoarse, one could guess that she must have been tortured.
"What happened?" Li Lanni asked again, although her voice did not contain any hint of worry about her "friend" being in trouble. Instead, she was calm and even slightly irritated.
"The person I went to meet... he..." Ji Feifei sniffled through the phone. "He found... people to beat me up and..."