Chapter 25 Lies
At 11 o'clock in the evening, everything was quiet and the rain was falling outside the window.
Seeing that the clock had pointed to the number 11, but Li Jinxi still hadn't returned, Lan Yaoxia couldn't help feeling a little worried.
After hesitating for a long time, he finally took the initiative to call Li Jinxi for the first time.
Li Jinxi's voice soon came from the other end of the phone: "Hello! What's the matter?"
Lan Yaoxia asked softly: "It's nothing, I just saw that you haven't come back yet so late, so I wanted to ask about the situation."
Li Jinxi replied calmly, "The company has some urgent matters to deal with, so I have to work overtime. I will be back soon."
Lan Yaoxia warned: "It's raining, drive safely."
Li Jinxi responded, "Okay, I got it. You should go to bed early too." Then she hung up the phone.
Putting down the phone, Lan Yaoxia walked towards the bathroom to wash up.
As the night deepened, the exhausted Lan Yaoxia had already fallen asleep. Suddenly, a piercing cell phone ring woke him up.
Then he rubbed his eyes and looked at the phone screen sleepily, only to see Du Yujie's name displayed on it. He pressed the answer button in a daze, and the voice was a little lazy: "Hello! What's wrong?"
Du Yujie's annoyed voice came from the other end of the phone: "Oh, what bad luck! I wanted to ask a beautiful girl out for some fun just now, but who knew the weather was so bad, the road was slippery due to the rain, and the car accidentally crashed into a tree on the side of the road."
"But fortunately, I didn't suffer any serious injuries. It was the little beauty who was injured. We are taking her to the hospital now." Du Yujie continued.
Hearing this, Lan Yaoxia suddenly came to her senses and asked with concern: "Are you really okay?"
Du Yujie said thankfully: "Fortunately, nothing serious happened to me, but guess who I met in the hospital?"
Hearing Du Yujie's mysterious words, Lan Yaoxia did not get impatient, but followed his words and asked: "Oh? Who did you meet?"
"Guess what?" Du Yujie seemed to want to make a joke.
However, when Du Yujie wanted to keep the secret, Lan Yaoxia didn't seem to want to pester him anymore and said calmly, "Since you're fine, I'll hang up first."
When Du Yujie heard this, he became anxious and shouted, "Don't hang up! Wait a minute, check your text messages, I'll send them to you right away."
After saying that, Du Yujie quickly hung up the phone. Not long after, Lan Yaoxia received a new message on her phone. She clicked it and saw a photo pop up on the screen.
Lan Yaoxia took a closer look and was instantly filled with anger. It turned out that the photo was of Gu Yannian lying on the hospital bed and Li Jinxi sitting beside the bed.
What’s even more infuriating is that both people in the photo have smiles on their faces, as if they are talking about something pleasant.
Looking at this dazzling photo, Lan Yaoxia couldn't help but clench her fists.
Feeling that she was deceived again, she cursed in her heart: "Okay, Li Jinxi, was I too good to you before? You actually lied to me like this again!"
Then, Du Yujie sent another message: "Just now when I went to get some water, I happened to see Li Jinxi. I was curious why she was in the hospital, so I secretly followed her and took a look..."
"It turned out that the two of them were being affectionate in the ward."
Du Yujie became more and more furious as he spoke, and his voice unconsciously rose: "Alan, we must not let this matter go like this!" However, Lan Yaoxia on the other end of the phone simply responded: "I know." Then she hung up the phone without hesitation.
After hanging up the phone, Lan Yaoxia still found it difficult to calm his inner anger. He held the phone tightly, as if he wanted to crush it.
He raised his arm and was about to throw the phone at the wall, but just as he was about to do it, he suddenly stopped. After a moment of careful consideration, he slowly lowered his raised hand, and finally put the phone back to its original place, then silently covered himself with the quilt and turned to lie down.
The next morning, light shone through the window into the room, but Li Jinxi still hadn't returned home. After a simple wash, Lan Yaoxia drove straight to the company.
Along the way, his face was as gloomy as water and his mood was very heavy.
When Lan Yaoxia stepped into the company's gate, the originally noisy office area suddenly became silent. The company employees exchanged glances, and no one dared to step forward to greet her.
Faced with Lan Yaoxia's frighteningly gloomy face, everyone felt as if they were walking on thin ice and chose to remain silent.
After entering the office, Lan Yaoxia sat down on the chair without moving. He sat there blankly the whole morning, staring ahead, his thoughts drifting away. Time passed by minute by minute, until the lunch break, Lan Yaoxia came back to his senses as if waking from a dream.
After having a quick lunch, Lan Yaoxia returned to the office.
She took out a bottle of red wine from the wine cabinet, opened the bottle cap, and poured half of it into the glass. At this moment, Lan Yaoxia just wanted to numb herself with alcohol, hoping to dispel the depression and irritability deep in her heart.
Then he lit another cigarette, took a deep puff, and slowly exhaled the smoke, trying to let his thoughts drift away with the smoke.
Lan Yaoxia spent the entire afternoon smoking and drinking to drown her sorrows, and the office was filled with a strong smell of cigarettes and alcohol.
However, the burning sensation brought by the alcohol did not calm the waves in Lan Yaoxia's heart, but made him even more upset.
Unconsciously, the photo that made him suffer so much reappeared in his mind. The fingers that were tightly gripping the wine glass tightened involuntarily, and the anger in his heart erupted like a volcano, difficult to contain.
Suddenly, a crisp "clang" sound broke the silence in the room - the wine glass in the hand was thrown heavily to the ground, instantly shattered into countless pieces, and glass fragments flew everywhere.
Looking at the mess on the ground, my mood became heavier.
At this moment, the phone rang suddenly, and the screen showed an incoming call from "Li Jinxi". Although Lan Yaoxia was still furious, she tried her best to control her emotions and pressed the answer button.
"Hello, husband, what are you doing?" Li Jinxi's voice came from the other end of the phone, as soft and pleasant as a yellow oriole singing in the valley. But this sweet and beautiful voice sounded like a devil's sound in Lan Yaoxia's ears, which was extremely harsh.
"If you have something to say, just say it!" Lan Yaoxia responded in a cold tone.
Li Jinxi didn't seem to notice the other party's displeasure, and continued, "Hubby, come home for dinner tonight. I will get off work early today and cook a few delicious dishes for you to taste."
Hearing her words, Lan Yaoxia just replied coldly: "It's up to you." and hung up the phone.
Then he hung up the phone directly. Li Jinxi on the other end was a little surprised, not understanding why Lan Yaoxia's tone became so cold again.