Chapter 721: Tangled
Although that’s what I was thinking, deep down I was consoling myself, telling myself it’s okay, that it’s not a big deal. I was just telling the truth, simply asking if he was eating alone or not. That’s not really a problem, right? It’s not like I asked if he had a girlfriend or something that awkward. Oh right, why haven’t I asked about that? What if he does have a girlfriend?
But logically speaking, he probably doesn’t. If he did, Shen Dong would know, and since I haven’t heard anything from Shen Dong, that must mean he doesn’t. If he did, he wouldn’t have added me on WeChat so directly. Tang Yuchan’s mind was a mess of thoughts, which eventually amounted to nothing. She just lay in bed, not sleeping, wanting to check her phone, but then wondering if it was really necessary to have her phone on airplane mode.
Lying in bed, time seemed to crawl by. She wanted to check her phone, and finally, after five minutes, she turned off airplane mode. "Now I can look; whatever the outcome, I can accept it."
Plus, I’ve already heard a woman’s voice; he couldn’t possibly have been sharing a table with someone else, right? So I checked my phone only to find out he hadn’t replied to my message yet. Tang Yuchan felt like a bolt of lightning had struck her from above, chilling her to the core. No reply yet? It’s already been half an hour.
He couldn’t have just missed the message, right? Besides, he said he had finished all his tasks, so how could he not reply to me?
Is it possible that it could be the woman across from him? Seeing him always on his phone, she grabbed it to see if it was me he was chatting with, and then started questioning him, just like I was questioning myself earlier. It seems possible.
Tang Yuchan really wanted to curse out Zhang Tao, calling him a true jerk, and then delete him, but she couldn’t bring herself to do it. Maybe she still needed to wait and see, in case he was busy with something. She kept telling herself to let it go. So she continued to turn airplane mode on and off, repeating the process several times.
Even after doing this for a while, without receiving a reply, her anxiety was palpable. Surely, she couldn’t just send another message to question him again. Instead, she had to wait in silence, the process excruciating. For the first time, she felt that falling in love wasn’t all that great, with the constant waiting for a man’s message.
Expecting a man to reply is just the first step towards bad luck. How have I become like this? Just the other day, I was criticizing Kang Yue for this; oh well, it turns out that every woman becomes the same when faced with these things. I have no right to speak about Kang Yue; it seems I’m just the same, Tang Yuchan felt incredibly sorry for herself.
Zhang Tao followed Shen Dong to a restaurant, only to realize it wasn’t far from where I had just eaten. If only I had known, I would have waited until now to take that video. Sigh, what a miscalculation.