Watching her daughter sob uncontrollably, Tang Yuyan couldn’t utter a single word.
She lowered her head, unable to hold back her tears.
In the living room, everyone fell into silence, a silence that, for Gu Qiangwei, was the most lethal and cruel answer imaginable.
Deep down, they all knew that if Qin Sijue were alive, he would have returned by now.
She closed her eyes as tears of pain overwhelmed her.
She knew that no matter how many days she waited, there would be no result.
No news is good news was merely a self-deceiving excuse she clung to.
Everyone watched her crying inconsolably, moved by her emotions, their eyes moistening and their voices choking up.
A sudden ringing, however, broke the mournful silence.
Gu Qiangwei was so engulfed in her grief that her phone had been ringing for a while before she found the strength to answer it.
It was Li Yuan who spoke, trying to use the ringing of the phone to interrupt her sorrow.
"Qiangwei, your phone is ringing."
With her shoulders shaking from sobs, Gu Qiangwei tried her best not to break down as she glanced up, her vision blurred by tears, unable to see the caller ID on her phone.
Because she was sobbing violently, she trembled as she picked up the phone from the coffee table.
Perhaps because of the intense sobbing, it took her a while to manage a "hello" after she slid the answer button and held the phone to her ear.
On the other end, Qin Sijue faintly heard sobbing but wasn’t sure.
Just as he was about to speak, a choked, hoarse voice came through, "Hello..."
When she spoke, her cry-laden voice nearly tore his heart apart, causing his chest to ache.
As he spoke, his voice was also somewhat hoarse from hearing her cry on the other end.
The familiar voice that suddenly came from the other end made Gu Qiangwei’s crying face momentarily freeze, and she looked up incredulously, thinking she might be hallucinating.
The word "Sijue" also caused everyone else in the living room to suddenly widen their eyes, their nerves tensing as they watched her on the phone.
But the next second, Gu Qiangwei’s tears began to flow uncontrollably, cascading down her face.
"Where are you... where exactly are you? Why won’t you come back... why aren’t you replying to my messages... sob... I thought you were dead... I thought—you didn’t want me anymore... sob!" She broke down crying once again!
Heaven knows, the moment she heard his voice, how excited and yet how painful her heart was...
Listening to her heart-wrenching cries over the phone, Qin Sijue’s heart felt as if it were being shredded by a blade, so much so that he found it hard to speak.
After a while, he managed to steady his choked voice, "Weiwei, don’t cry, listen to me."
Gu Qiangwei was still sobbing violently, but she nodded and asked through her sobs, "Where are you now?"
"I’m in C City, K County..." Mid-sentence, he suddenly looked up at Ling Xi, "Where is this place?"
Knowing he was speaking with his family, Ling Xi answered crisply!
"Baiyun Town, 218, that’s where I am now. But the people chasing me have also arrived at K County, I don’t know how safe I am here, you—"
As they were talking, a sudden boom from outside interrupted their conversation!