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Chapter 407: Chapter 400: Mobile Phone
As for these matters, she wasn’t afraid for others to discover them. After all, none of this family’s disgrace was her fault. She felt no shame, the ones who should be ashamed were Sang Zhilan and the daughter she gave birth to. Fortunately, no one yet knew about this. However, Sang Zhilan will forever be unable to lift up her head in front of people and straighten her spine because of this matter.
Right and wrong, black and white, everyone knows in their heart.
It can’t be clarified by mere words
No amount of explanations can defeat a fact.
Tang Yuxin took out some snacks, let her roommates distribute them all, each person keeping a few bags. She didn’t like eating them much anyway. Why not share with everyone else? It made more sense to eat them.
Her younger brother was a good boy and a good kid. Knowing that his elder sister was worried about what to gift her new roommates, he quickly sent her substantial snacks.
She opened another bag, one that Ren Li had given her. It was a backpack. She knew the exterior looked rather ordinary, but upon checking the brand inside, it was a famous international one. She had no idea how much it cost, only that it was not cheap. There were also a few exquisite little bottles of perfume. She didn’t need them; her body naturally expelled a fragrant scent. To hide it, she tried every means possible and finally managed to get rid of the scent. So, she had some resistance towards perfume. The perfumes in the bag were in delicate small bottles, but they were all genuine. She believed in that.
Ren Li had quite a wide circle of friends now, so these might not have been gifted to her by clients. She just packaged them and sent them over for fun.
“These were sent by my aunt. Pick a few for yourselves.”
Tang Yuxin passed the box of perfumes to Li Jia.
Girls love these things. They weren’t concerned so much about whether the perfume was genuine or not, the beautiful bottles themselves were appealing. They all gathered together to choose bottles. The moment they opened the bottles, they were almost intoxicated by the aroma.
Therefore, the girls started seriously selecting perfumes, sprinkling some here, dabbing some there. In just a while, the room filled with a delightful fragrance.
“Can’t you guys please stop? It stinks!” Wei Jiani covered her own head with a quilt. Her voice was very sharp.
“If you find it stinky, you don’t have to smell it,” Li Jia, having been choked by her recently, retorted straight away. Originally, she planned on letting her choose a few bottles. Now, she decided not to give her any.
Tang Yuxin continued lying down, holding the gift given to her by Gu Ning in her arms.
Gu Ning said it was a gift for her, but what could it be?
She sat up, placing the box on her legs. She had a feeling that if she opened it, it would somehow be tied to some complicated repercussions.
She sighed quietly, then lowered her head, slowly opening the box.
What ended up in her hand was a small white cell phone. It was the latest model and indeed the most expensive one. While Tang Yuxin could afford a phone, she didn’t see the need for it. She had a landline at her place; there was a telephone in the dormitory, so whether she had a cell phone or not didn’t matter. At that time, people didn’t depend on their phones as much as they would later, feeling unable to live without carrying one every day.
Cell phones were not yet a necessity in their lives.
They were still optional.
She took out the phone. Turning it on, it booted up into the most primitive blue screen interface. Despite being simple, it was still a very expensive phone on the market at the time. Tang Yuxin knew well how to use such old-fashioned phones. When she opened the back cover of the phone, there was already a SIM card installed.
After playing around with it for a while, she figured out how to turn the phone on.
When she pressed the power button, the fondly remembered monophonic ringtone started playing.
“Huh, a cell phone?” Li Jia and the others crowded around. Most students used magnetic cards at that time. They wondered what kind of family Tang Yuxin was from, to be able to afford a cell phone.
“It’s a gift from my uncle.”
Upon hearing the word uncle, Tang Yuxin could feel her face burning.
Actually, there was no uncle. No such relation existed.
Wei Jiani glared at the cell phone, her eyes filled with deep jealousy.
Tang Yuxin held the cell phone, found the simplest game in it – Snake – and started playing. It had been a long time since she last saw these high-tech devices. Holding one again, she truly felt her time was reversing, while her life was still moving forward.
It was like returning to that year, the year when she was thirty-three. But this time around, it wouldn’t be the same fate as in her previous life. She believed she would handle things well, she surely would, and so would Gu Ning.
At night, she was playing with the cell phone when a new message appeared on the screen. She opened the message.
‘Here’s a phone as a token of my gratitude for saving Commander Huang and Shen Fei.’
Tang Yuxin gripped the cell phone tightly. A lot of responses came to her mind, but she deleted every one she wrote out and rewrote each one she deleted. In the end, she still didn’t know what to say in return.
‘You’re welcome, it’s what I should have done.’
‘This is too much, such an expensive gift, I can’t accept.’
‘Actually, I didn’t do much.’
Every sentence felt fake and unnecessarily complicated, so in the end, she decided against sending it.
She deleted all the words she had just input and turned off the cell phone’s screen. Then she wrapped herself in the quilt and fell asleep. That night, she seemed to have returned to her past when she was thirty years old, her first encounter with Gu Ning.
By then, Gu Ning was close to forty, yet still well-preserved. His facial features were steady; his eyes were deep and concentrated. When he laughed, it felt like a cold breeze. There was no warmth to be found in it, perhaps because he knew there were no more things in the world that could make him laugh.
“Gu Ning, I want a divorce,” the woman, wearing a brand-name outfit with impeccable makeup. However, beneath the dense makeup, her original appearance was indistinguishable.
Whether ugly or pretty, the makeup had made it unrecognizable.
“This is what you want?” Gu Ning leaned his body against the wall. He did not refuse to stand up; he was just doing his best to keep his body in this stable state.
“Yes,” the woman looked at Gu Ning’s thin figure and curled her lips. “What else can you offer me? In your state, you only have a few years left to live. I can’t possibly stay with a dead man, can I?”
The man continued to stand there, his eyes calm, like a quiet, stormless sea. Later, he quietly lifted his colorless thin lips.
“If you want a divorce, then let’s divorce.”