Chapter 128: Chapter 124 Sheng Xian, I Want to See You Chapter 128: Chapter 124 Sheng Xian, I Want to See You Lu Jingyan stiffened, obviously feeling her fingertips tremble slightly with his words. She stared at Sheng Xian, her mouth agape, unsure what to say.

She really hadn’t expected Sheng Xian to admit his fault. She wasn’t the kind of person who was unreasonable. She clearly understood that the result was not Sheng Xian’s fault, but hers.

Her mood had been complex these past few days, filled with frustration, depression, sadness, and embarrassment. She had no idea how to face him, so she simply chose to hide from him like an ostrich.

It was like suffering a loss silently, where there was nowhere to vent, and she could only wait to digest it slowly.

Lu Jingyan was silent for a while, “Where do you think you went wrong?”

Sheng Xian paused, not speaking.

Honestly, he didn’t know where he had gone wrong, but he didn’t dare to ask.

His instinct told him that asking her, “What exactly did I do to upset you?” would likely sound like he was arguing with her.

Sheng Xian silently analyzed in his heart and felt it was better to agree with her at this moment, “As you say.”

“…”

Lu Jingyan found herself devoid of anger at these three words, even beginning to doubt whether she was just being unreasonable.

She admitted that her question had been quite tricky. Professor Sheng wasn’t a mind reader, he couldn’t possibly know what had been going through her mind these days, let alone what had specifically gone wrong.

Lu Jingyan felt it was a bit pathetic to let it go, but the resentment she had been bottling up had indeed dissipated.

She thought for a while and felt that it was impossible to continue this topic, so she slowly acknowledged with an “Oh,” and awkwardly changed the subject, “Why did you come here?”

“What else?” Sheng Xian stared at her intently for two seconds, making sure she was okay, then he released her wrist and said without emotion, “I came to find you.”

“…”

Lu Jingyan felt her resigned heart stir again.

With such a disastrous precedent before her, she learned from her past and didn’t get ahead of herself but just nodded expressionlessly and calmly asked, “Why did you come to find me?”

Sheng Xian looked at her for two seconds and said softly, “Aren’t you avoiding me?”

Lu Jingyan felt truly pathetic.

In someone else’s case, she would have been blocked long ago, and not only was Sheng Xian perfectly alive in her phone, but he also managed to cheer her up in just a few words.

Lu Jingyan silently sighed and drank the rest of her wine in silence.

Sheng Xian didn’t know what she was thinking, and looking at her empty glass, asked, “Do you want more to drink?”

Lu Jingyan shook her head.

“Are you still playing then?”

Lu Jingyan hesitated, then shook her head again.

“Shall I take you home?”

Lu Jingyan thought for a while, then nodded, “Alright.”

…

Lu Jingyan returned to the booth, greeted Chen Kai and Song Xian, grabbed her stuff, and walked out of the bar.

Sheng Xian had already driven his car to the bar entrance. When he saw her coming out, he honked the horn briefly.

Lu Jingyan walked over, opened the car door, climbed inside, and buckled her seatbelt. She took out her mobile phone from her coat pocket.

She hadn’t checked her phone much while she was at the bar; by now, it had accumulated quite a few messages.

She chose the necessary ones to reply to, noticed a red notification on Emotion, and casually clicked on it.

A minute ago, that garbled user had sent her a private message: a video clip.

It was a video of her and Sheng Xian talking at the bar just now.

The bar was noisy, and whoever filmed it was far from them, so their conversation wasn’t captured.

While she was watching the video, her phone rang several more times.

It was still messages from that garbled account.

There were videos of her getting into Sheng Xian’s car, and at the end of one, Sheng Xian’s license plate was shown very clearly.

Besides that, there were several text messages.

All were details about Sheng Xian, from his name and age to his work and home addresses—everything was listed in detail.

Lu Jingyan’s hand trembled, causing her phone to drop onto her lap.

Sheng Xian turned his head, noting that her face looked unsettled, “What’s wrong?”

Lu Jingyan picked up her phone with effort, “I drank too much.”

Sheng Xian said nothing, glancing several times at her phone through the rearview mirror.

On the road, Lu Jingyan’s phone rang several times, but she didn’t look at it again.

At the doorstep of her house, Lu Jingyan said goodbye to Sheng Xian, did not linger, and went straight inside.

Ignoring Aunt Sun’s inquiry about whether she wanted a late-night snack, she rushed to the second floor and double-locked her bedroom door, then pulled out her phone.

Garbled user: “Tell me, what do you think would happen if I sent all these photos of you to him?”

Scrambled text: “The thing from back then, do you dare tell him?”

Scrambled text: “Oh, my mistake, it’s not that you don’t dare tell him, you don’t dare tell anyone, right?”

Scrambled text: “In the end, you never dared to stand up for yourself, did you?”

Scrambled text: “I told you, I won’t let you go.”

Scrambled text: “By now you must know who I am, right?”

Scrambled text: “Hehehehehehe, yes, I’ve come back.”

Lu Jingyan closed her eyes, suppressing the shivers that coursed through her body, and breathed deeply.

Actually, since the last time she learned that the scrambled text wasn’t Bo Mu, she had a good idea of who it was.

Yet she didn’t want to face it; she had calculated the time, still two years left, and deceitfully harbored a bit of hope.

But now it seemed like she had nowhere left to retreat.

Lu Jingyan, suppressing the nausea and fear spreading from the depths of her heart, slowly opened her contacts list, found a phone number, and composed a message.

A quick notification for the message came back: “I’ll look into it.”

Lu Jingyan held her phone, quietly waiting.

The other party was efficient, and in less than ten minutes, they had found the results. She stared at the unread message notification for a long time, blinking hard, before she clicked on it.

[Yes, he has been released, let out two and a half years early for good behavior in prison, receiving a reduction in his sentence.]

It was indeed him.

What was meant to come, would always come.

…

Lu Jingyan woke from a dream, lay there for a while, and noticed her pillow was wet. Lifting her hand, she wiped her face—it was soaked with tears.

She turned on the light, got out of bed, and went to the bathroom to wash her face. After coming out, she sat down on the armchair facing the balcony, hugging her legs and burying her face in her knees.

She remembered a few months ago, the same situation occurred; she had a nightmare and thought she’d have to sit up all night on this couch until daybreak, then suddenly her phone rang.

It was Sheng Xian, notifying her of his friend request acceptance.

That night, he had saved her.

At this moment, she hoped history would repeat itself.

Perhaps her longing was too intense, she actually heard her phone genuinely ding.

She lifted her head from her knees, cocked her head and earnestly waited for a while. Seeing the phone on the bed remained quiet, she silently turned her head back.

It was indeed her illusion.

Now at 3 a.m., everyone was asleep, who would send her a message?

She pursed her lips, disheartened, and buried her head back into her knees.

The phone rang again, this time not a ding, but a ringing tone.

She paused for a moment, making sure she hadn’t misheard, then bounced off the sofa and rushed to the bed. On the lit-up screen, she saw Sheng Xian’s name displayed clearly.

She answered without hesitation.

“Ayan.”

His voice was soft, carrying a hint of fatigue.

Lu Jingyan’s eyes reddened, and tears fell in an instant. She was never one to show her vulnerable side to others, but at that moment, she couldn’t care less about pride or dignity. Desperate like a drowning person clutching at the only straw, she preempted him and blurted out, “I want to see you.”

“…”

Suppressing the tremor in her voice, she didn’t wait for him to respond and hurriedly spoke again, “Sheng Xian, I want to see you.”

“…”

“I want to see you right now.”

“…”

The other end of the phone was silent. Lu Jingyan gripped her phone, even her breathing cautious.

Just as she thought that the entire phone call had been her imagination, she heard his voice.

“Open your curtains.”

Lu Jingyan froze for a good ten seconds, then suddenly, as if realizing something, dashed to the window.

Not far from the door, under the dim streetlight, a car was parked.

He leaned against the car, holding his phone, tilting his head upward looking toward her bedroom.

“I didn’t leave.”

He said, “I never left.”

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