on the verge of tears

  "Haven't we met somewhere before?"

  Du Ke rolled her eyes, how could it be possible.

  Li Jiahao furrowed his brow, also realizing that now was not the time to discuss this issue. He hadn't expected that noisy and troublesome Lan Yue, who had claimed she wanted to commit suicide hundreds of times, would actually do something like this. Although he had repeatedly refused her, he really did feel annoyed with her. But absolutely didn't want anyone to die because of him. However... the look on that girl's face just now had made him think of someone in an instant.

  It can't be such a coincidence, right?

  Watching the boy's back disappear, Du Kui also turned around and walked in the opposite direction, a suspended heart finally fell.

  To prevent Li Jiahao from finding out the truth and making things difficult for her, it's better to leave quietly. Anyway, the person has been saved and the money has been paid, she can consider herself successful and virtuous, and who knows, maybe even earn some extra merit for her own Buddhist karma.

  Thinking of this, she couldn't help but think of Bai Qingzhen again. Before leaving in the morning, that girl had repeatedly reminded her to report back after meeting Xu Xu, and now she must be worried to death.

  She opened her small black backpack, and in the interlayer were two mobile phones lying flat, her own mountain stronghold and Jin Can's IPHONE4, seemingly smiling at her.

  But her mind suddenly exploded with a loud bang.

  "So you're saying that the extremely good-looking young man who gave you an iPhone 4 out of nowhere is actually a playboy who drives women to commit suicide? Bai Qingru tapped her finger on the table, thought for a moment and said "Hmm", then continued, "But let's put this aside, the problem is, you two are also too fated, aren't you? Is it really that 'destined' thing?"

  "Never mind whether it's destined or not," Du Keweixi said with a crying face, holding her constantly vibrating white mountain stronghold, "what should I do now? Won't I really be blackmailed?"

  The day after handling the suicide case, Li Jiahao dialed her mobile phone number left on the hospital's record book.

  At that time, she was still silly and picked it up. After hearing the sentence "I am Li Jiahao", she threw her mobile phone out like a grenade. To this day, the number marked as "heartless" by her has called over 100 times, so much so that when she hears the vibration of her mobile phone, she is scared to death.

  "Either you change your number or you go back and negotiate with him, give him some money to settle it privately." Bai Qing said finally.

  Du Ke Wei also understood that there were only two roads to take, although she deeply suspected the actual amount of "giving some money" would be how much, but the phone number was absolutely not changeable. Otherwise, all the internship applications she had filled out before would be wasted, and her efforts for the past half year in her senior year would be in vain. Finding an internship was already a headache, if someone hired her but couldn't contact her, that would be a tragedy.

  She then trembled and took out all the money left in her bank card in the afternoon, and specifically went online to check how serious the crime of extortion was. In theory, this is not a criminal offense, but if it really comes down to it, I estimate that it will be unavoidable to have a disciplinary action.

  She steeled herself and finally dialed Li Jiahao's number.

  The wait for the connection was long, and each "beep" made her heart sink further. By the time someone finally picked up on the other end, her voice had become hoarse.

  "Hello... is this Li Jiahao? I'm Du Kewe."

  That one sounds very noisy. Various voices are mixed together, a bit like some KTV private room. After the rustling static friction sound passed, Li Jiahao's voice came over vaguely, "Oh, what's up?"