She steadied her emotions, trying her best not to let any wavering be heard in her voice.
As she answered the phone call, she responded irritably.
Perhaps it was because she rarely interacted with Li Yuan, and when they first met, they had almost gotten into a fight.
Therefore, in Huo Yishan’s view, her relationship with Li Yuan was ’not good’, and the possibility of him liking her, as Gu Qiangwei had suggested last time, was practically zero.
Thinking about it, although he would send her a WeChat message every now and then, each of his inquiries left her speechless, so sometimes she simply didn’t respond. Plus, she was often busy with filming, sometimes working late into the night before heading home.
"Why aren’t you replying to my messages?"
This time, his voice was somewhat deep and even lacked the usual liveliness.
Hearing this slightly low and suppressed tone for the first time, Huo Yishan was slightly taken aback.
But soon, she assumed Li Yuan was just teasing her as he often had before!
Without thinking too much about it, she retorted irritably, "Why should I reply to your messages?"
Li Yuan was taken aback, feeling even more empty inside.
"Then why did you answer my call?"
"So should I hang up?"
Naturally, he didn’t want to hang up the hard-earned call.
Huo Yishan was just saying it and didn’t actually intend to hang up.
"Can’t I call you if there’s nothing?" he retorted. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ ɴovᴇl_Firᴇ.ɴet
Huo Yishan immediately thought of the evening scene where he was playfully intimate with that woman.
He must have called her just because he had nothing else to do, "No, you can’t!"
"If you’re bored, go find a woman, you men... when you have nothing to do, love to go out for romantic affairs, don’t you?"
Li Yuan’s eyes narrowed slightly, "Have you seen me engaging in romantic affairs?"
"Then how do you know I’ve ever engaged in such affairs?"
"Because you have the face of a man who would!"
If it were a usual day, he might have continued to banter with her.
But at this moment, he seemed to lack both the inclination and the mood to do so.
Huo Yishan noticed this as well.
From their first meeting until now, their most frequent interaction was their bickering, carrying on ceaselessly, sometimes until her phone battery died without her even noticing.
Thinking about it, it seemed that time always flew by unnoticed whenever she was arguing with him.
Listening to the silence on the other end of the phone, Huo Yishan raised her eyebrows, then spoke with a hint of confusion, "Hello?"
Thinking there might be a communication issue since he had stopped talking, or perhaps that he had fallen asleep while talking?
The two low words came through the phone once more.
"What’s the matter? Today you seem quite gloomy?"
As far as she could recall, she had never seen him this gloomy, managing to restrain his voice?
"No, isn’t gloominess something you women show?"
"Who says!? Men can be gloomy too, you know!"
The phone fell into silence again.
"You... are in a bad mood?"
Ultimately, she surmised that maybe he was in a bad mood, which was why he was speaking so little.
His abrupt question made Huo Yishan pause for a moment.
Thinking about how he had stolen her first kiss, and the sight of him frolicking with another woman, she replied without hesitation, "Dislike!"