Chapter 317 What are you afraid of?
She followed to the restaurant, sat there properly, and picked up her chopsticks.
On the table were the dried salt cod she had eaten in Portugal, the fried mussels she had eaten in Spain, the sour and sour beef she had eaten in Germany, and the herring she had eaten in London. There was a large table full of them.
It was like a summary of the journey, proving that except for Italy, Ying Duo had been sending people to follow her.
At most, they were dishes she had eaten in Sweden, which seemed like a deliberate stimulus to remind her of everything in Sweden.
But she didn't seem to realize that all of this was an insult to her. She just picked up a piece of mussels with chopsticks and put it into the bowl as if she had never eaten any of them.
Although she ate very little, at least she ate, but not much. It was far from enough for an adult, and it was even less than what she used to eat in Hong Kong.
Ying Duo was opposite her, not looking to see if she had eaten. He was holding his mobile phone as if dealing with something.
For a moment, he put his cell phone on the table with a calm expression and put it on speakerphone, and the dialing beeps sounded slowly and regularly.
Tang Guanqi lowered his head, as if he didn't hear anything.
On the fifth ring, the call was answered.
Originally, Tang Guanqi still had his head down, flicking the rice grains with his chopsticks.
Ying Duo said quietly: "Professor Wen, I'm disturbing you."
After hearing Ying Duo's first words, Tang Guanqi raised his head, realized that the person on the other side was Wen Weixu, and was about to hang up the phone.
Ying Duo clamped her wrist tightly. When Tang Guanqi wanted to stretch out his other hand, he clamped it again with an expressionless face, put her two hands together, and held both of her hands with one hand, so that she could not hang up. Cut off this overseas phone call.
Tang Guanqi struggled desperately, but there was a huge disparity in strength. She couldn't break away at all. She couldn't move even half an inch from his hand with all her strength. Her pale face turned red from the exertion.
But the call had been dialed, and she couldn't control what Ying Duo would say. She didn't want to disturb irrelevant people because of herself, so she anxiously bit the back of Ying Duo's hand, trying to use this method to make him let go.
But the teeth marks were deeply embedded into his skin. Ying Duo didn't blink, and the veins on the back of his hand popped out, letting her bite until blood flowed.
He still held her slender wrist tightly, even tighter, making it impossible for her to avoid the confrontation with Wen Weixu, forcing her to have her last layer of dignity stripped off in front of Wen Weixu.
On the other side, even though the phone call was sudden, Wen Weixu still maintained his grace:
"Is there something urgent?"
Ying Duo's voice still sounded gentle and modest, and even seemed relaxed, as if he was chatting with Wen Weixu with a faint smile:
"It's like this. Guanqi has returned to Hong Kong, but she hasn't adapted to it for a while. She can't eat. She misses the puffs you took her to eat. She said you took good care of her in Sijing. I think if she and her teacher Maybe it will be better if we make a phone call.”
His voice still sounded polite and kind: "Isn't it too disturbing at this time?"
The other party was silent for a moment, seeming to be thinking: "Of course I won't disturb you. Is Guanqi here?"
Ying Duo's voice contained a smile, as if he was talking about his beloved fiancée fondly:
"She's right next to you."
But there was no smile on his face at all, and it was even so cold that it was almost chilly. He held Tang Guanqi's hand tightly and forced her to listen.
Tang Guanqi's eyes were red. During the struggle, some hair stuck to her face randomly. Her wrist was held up, and she couldn't even struggle. Ying Duo used his height advantage to control her easily.
Wen Weixu was silent again for a while. Tang Guanqi didn't know what all this sounded like to Wen Weixu's ears. The physiological tears fell from her eyes, not knowing whether it was because of the constant exertion or because of embarrassment. It's useless to cry.
Wen Weixu on the other end finally made a voice, as if he had thought about something, and spoke like a teacher caring for his disciples:
"Hannah, there is a restaurant in Hong Kong that tastes very similar to Owl'Choux. If you want to eat puffs, you can try this restaurant."
Wen Weixu suddenly changed his name to Hannah instead of calling her Guanqi, which implicitly conveyed a sense of alienation. Most of the truly close and familiar friends were given Chinese names, while those with whom the relationship was not deep enough or who needed to maintain a polite distance were given English names.
Wen Weixu had never called her Hannah, and this was the first time Tang Guanqi heard him call her by her English name.
Ying Duo held her wrist tightly, as if he wanted to crush her wrist, but his mouth seemed to be smiling and gentle, exactly the same as the tone he used to coax her into talking about pigs before:
"The teacher is calling you, why don't you answer?"
Tang Guanqi stared at Ying Duo, a large tear unconsciously slipped from the end of Mingkuo's eyes, but he controlled his volume and tone:
"Okay, thank you Professor Wen."
Wen Weixu on the other end was holding his mobile phone, looking at the call interface, and only said a very calm voice:
"You're welcome."
Ying Duo's voice still sounded personable, just like he did in front of all the media: "Wait until Professor Wen returns to Hong Kong, and then I will visit you with Guanqi."
"Of course, goodbye." Wen Weixu didn't say another word to care about Tang Guanqi's current situation. He just said this and hung up the phone, as if he was really just an ordinary teacher and student.
But this behavior was a great help to Tang Guanqi, and she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Ying Duo finally let go of her, and she gasped for breath. She couldn't hold her hands on the table and slumped down on the chair.
She didn't even have the extra energy to express her emotions. Her ears and eyes seemed to be filled with shadows, her blood vessels seemed to be paralyzed, and her eyes flashed with gray and black alternations that only occur when hypoglycemia occurs.
It took a long time for her to come back to her senses. Her eyes fell on the red marks on her hands, and from the corner of her eye she caught a glimpse of a palm with teeth marks that were so purple that they overflowed with blood.
She just came back to her senses and raised her head to look at the owner of the hand. Ying Duo was looking at her expressionlessly, with his back to the light and his eyes indifferent.
Only then did she realize that he had been standing there looking at her, with an inexplicable chill behind her.
She had always had a gentle and affectionate face in the past, but the lines were so sharp that just looking at him made her feel intimidating. It made people realize that this is what he looked like, instead of the easy-going and tolerant she thought he was when they first met.
It was like a judge who had nothing to do with her was looking at her calmly, observing all her gaffes from above, and judging the severity of her crime.
Tang Guanqi wiped his tears with his sleeves and picked up the chopsticks again as if nothing happened.
Even though her hand holding the chopsticks was so weak that it was shaking and unable to hold it, she still acted like nothing had happened.
Ying Duo just watched quietly as she forced herself to act peacefully, acting out a harmonious scene that no one could deceive.
Tang Guanqi finally picked up a few grains of rice with his chopsticks and heard a cold and heartbreaking question coming from above his head:
"Are you happy?"
He moved her favorite dish in Sweden:
"Hearing Wen Weixu's voice, I should be able to eat now."
The bottom of the porcelain plate clicked onto the table with a dull sound.
Tang Guanqi suddenly smashed the chopsticks in her hand, but she was too weak and the chopsticks were only thrown a few steps away.
Her voice was very soft: "Have you said enough?"
However, there was no wave or tension on Ying Duo's face, as if she was not nervous about her thoughts at all. She touched her thin lips lightly and said:
"Are you afraid of being hit by me?"
Tang Guanqi felt as if his respiratory tract was filled with ice, and his lungs were full of crystals. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't suck in a breath of air. He couldn't believe that every word came from Ying Duo's mouth.
Ying Duo's voice was cold and flat: "What were you afraid of just now?"
Tang Guanqi looked up at him without speaking.
Ying Duo lowered his eyes and looked at her as if he were a stranger: "What are you afraid Wen Weixu will hear?"
The surroundings were eerily quiet, except for the ticking sound of the indoor waterscape.
It seemed like they were the only two people in the villa, and it was deathly silent inside and out.
His tone was cold, like a spectator watching her emotions being manipulated wantonly, and his pale lips touched lightly:
"Are you afraid that he will be angry, or are you afraid that he will think we are very affectionate?"
Tang Guanqi's voice was very soft: "Stop talking."
Ying Duo's eyes were lowered and his eyelashes were sharp: "Does it make you uncomfortable to mention him?"
Tang Guanqi suddenly raised his voice: "I told you not to say it."
She stood up and was about to leave, but Ying Duo clamped her arm: "Where are you going?"
Tang Guanqi gritted his teeth: "I don't want to stay with you."
But every word she spoke was trembling unconsciously.
Ying Duo did not let her go: "Have you told him a long time ago that he would wait for you in Sweden?"
Tang Guanqi looked at him with red eyes: "I didn't."
Ying Duo looked at her condescendingly, his eyes looking down with complete indifference: "Then how did he know that he could wait for you in Sweden?"
"I don't know!" Tang Guanqi struggled to leave, but Ying Duo's big hand held her so that she could not move even a step.
In the midst of the struggle, a corner of the pill appeared in her pocket.
Ying Duo lowered his eyes and saw with just one glance that this was not the oxazepam that Zheng Wei prescribed to Tang Guanqi.
He pulled it out directly. Tang Guanqi was unprepared for a moment until he realized that Ying Duo had already held it in his hand. She wanted to grab it, but he just raised his hand slightly and she couldn't get it, even if Tang Guanqi grabbed his wrist hard to grab it.
Ying Duo narrowed his eyes and stared at the slanted English words on the pill: "Is this the medicine the doctor prescribed for you?"
She raised her head and said word by word: "No, but it is much more important than the medicine the doctor prescribed to me."
Her expression was too cold, and she had an unlikely guess about the properties of the medicine. His voice was cold:
"What long-acting medicine did you want the doctor to prescribe to you yesterday?"
Knowing that he was monitoring the whole process, her face was so cold and pale that it seemed almost transparent. She finally let go of his arm, knowing that she couldn't get it back, and said feebly: "Contraceptive pills, please listen clearly now."
Ying Duo's hand grasped her slender arm and forcefully pulled her towards him, as if calm but he held her tightly:
"Say it again."
Tang Guanqi said loudly: "Contraceptive pills, do you understand?"
She was already aloof and stubborn, with her face turned upward, with a life-and-death spirit, and every word was like a sharp knife piercing Ying Duo's heart:
"I hate you very much. I don't want to be with you, let alone have children with you in the future. If you weren't rich, I would never be with you. You think you are very attractive, so I follow you like a dog. It’s all your own illusion, and I never like you.”
Ying Duo held her hand vigorously and stared at her at a distance where his breath could be heard, but his face was emotionless, and he pressed the housekeeper's bell heavily with his free hand.
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The housekeeper hurriedly went to the restaurant. When he saw this scene, he didn't even dare to raise his head. He only dared to lower his head and said:
"What are your orders?"
Ying Duo threw the pills in his hand on the table, and the bass could not hear the fluctuation: "Throw away the garbage."
"Okay." The housekeeper responded hurriedly.
Tang Guanqi watched the housekeeper go out with the pills.
Before she could react, Ying Duo held her arm and pulled her forward.
Tang Guanqi couldn't keep up, and he was almost dragged by him from the small run, his toes sliding across the carpet.
He didn't even look at her, he just pulled her forward, and she struggled hard:
"Let me go!"
Ying Duo directly dragged her to a room that was not commonly used on this floor and threw her on the bed. The door slammed shut. He tore his tie apart and came over to control her.
Tang Guanqi's momentum suddenly weakened, panicked tears slid from the end of her eyes and down her temples, and her delicate hands held the corners of his clothes:
"Ying Duo, I really don't like you if you keep doing this."
When she cried, she was so pitiful that it made people's hearts palpitate. Her pale and petite face was flushed red, and the tears at the end of her eyes were trembling. Ying Duo stopped for a second.
Seeing that he stopped, Tang Guanqi immediately begged him with red eyes: "I'm just talking nonsense. Just pretend that this didn't happen. Can we still be the same as before?"
But her expression was exactly the same as when she was disappointed that he couldn't recognize her as her mother-in-law's granddaughter.
It was all performed by her, all her true love was made up by her, and she had never liked him.
He had been uneasy and worried because of this look on his face.
He only sarcastically said: "When did you ever like me? You only like money. If it were anyone sitting in this position, he could become your sponsor if he had money."
She choked and hurriedly retorted to him: "No."
It is rare to see clear skies in Hong Kong in April. It is mostly rainy. Large patches of dark clouds are blown closer by the sea breeze in the evening.
Densely gathered by the twilight all around, the aura on his body was overwhelming like twilight and dark clouds pressing down, forcefully opening her legs.
By night, all the lights were on in the villa, and a pile of new banknotes were scattered on the bed in the remote room, scattered everywhere.
The box containing the money was thrown carelessly on the carpet with its mouth still open.
Tang Guanqi was lying with her back to the door, her thin back motionless, and the box of money that she had not finished was all poured onto her.
Listening to him say whether it was enough, it seemed that all the unspoken love and care had become a tool to humiliate her, which was more painful than simply giving her a box of new money.
This box of money was originally given to Ying Duo because she felt sorry for her that she had to participate in a drug experiment, so she asked someone to contact the president in the middle of the night to withdraw the money. She only took 50,000, and he didn't have a branch for the rest, so he kept it and was afraid of her. Time to use.
Later, she had many cards that could be swiped, and Ying Duo transferred countless assets to her name. She had huge returns from the investment and never used them again.
She thought she would never see the box of money again.
She thought she was no longer an ant who desperately needed the money to survive.
It took a long time for her to get up, pick up the money bit by bit, and put them in piles on the bedside table. She sat next to them and looked at the money without saying anything.
The security defense outside Shouson Mountain has reached level one, with no gaps left.
There was no mobile phone, only a computer that was most likely being monitored. She had been deliberately not touching it, but at this moment she suddenly missed her friend.
She logged into her account and looked at the scenery along the way that she had posted before. When she saw the post about the wave breaking the ice, her eyes suddenly heated up.
Duoyi discovered that Tang Guanqi was online and immediately played the video for her.
Tang Guanqi quickly wiped his face clean, arranged his hair and clothes, adjusted his breathing, and answered the phone.
As soon as the call was connected, the three people came up and looked at her: "Hannah, are you okay?"
Xiao Li's confused and anxious voice sounded: "Where are you? Isn't it convenient for me to talk?"
Tang Guanqi smiled enthusiastically, as if he was very happy: "I'm fine. I've returned to Hong Kong. There are some important things that must be dealt with now."
Xiao Li felt something was wrong: "Why are your eyes so red?"
Tang Guanqi smiled, her dimples were deeply dented, and her smile was so big that it felt like she had just experienced something very happy:
"I just had hot pot. It was very spicy. Two days ago, didn't you say that foreigners don't know how to cook and it was a waste of good beef? Why not eat butter hot pot? I ate butter hot pot today."
Seeing her like this, the three of them finally felt relieved.
Xiao Li's eyes were a little red, and he muttered: "I'm scared to death. We have been waiting in Sweden for almost two days without any news from you, and we don't dare to leave Chun Yu Wan. Seeing that you are okay, we are not afraid anymore."
Tang Guanqi smiled brightly, squinting her eyes to almost completely cover the redness under her eyes, and unable to see her pupils clearly: "It's all my fault, has anything happened to you in the past two days?"
Xiao Li hummed: "Yes, you go back alone to eat delicious food. I'm going to vomit eating white people's food here."
Tang Guanqi's smile was thick and he looked like he was having a good time: "When do you plan to go to the Czech Republic?"
Xiao Li muttered: "It wouldn't be fun without you. We have no plans to go on the next trip."
Tang Guanqi wanted to see them go out and play: "Go. Although I can't go, I will be very happy when I look at your photos, as if I went there."
Xiao Li exclaimed as if he had suddenly figured it out: "I knew you wanted to use my top photography skills for free and use it to post on Instagram, right? How did you become like Doris!"
Duo Yishi quickly said: "Hey, I still have some photos I took in my account, at least one, two, three or four."
Seeing them playing around there, Tang Guanqi laughed through tears, and the tears in his eyes seemed to be really clear water.
Like a parent, William stopped the two of them from pinching each other and quickly stopped the riot:
"Contact us at any time. We will send you photos every day. Doris and I will return to Hong Kong in less than half a month. See you in Hong Kong then."
Tang Guanqi smiled and nodded.
The moment the other end hung up the video, Tang Guanqi's smile disappeared, and the huge room returned to silence.
She held her eyes up with her wrist, and there were wet marks on her sleeves.
But she tried to breathe like a normal person and fell asleep very late.
The next morning, Tang Guanqi didn't come out for breakfast. The housekeeper knocked on the door and asked her cautiously:
"You haven't been out in the villa for several days. Do you want to go out for a walk?"
Tang Guanqi sat on the terrace without looking back. His voice was dry, as if all the water had been squeezed out: "Can I go out?"
The housekeeper was a little surprised: "Of course."
Tang Guanqi finally turned around and looked at the housekeeper with cold but not bright eyes:
“But there are bodyguards outside.”
Only then did the housekeeper remember that he had not explained it to the hostess: "That's what you were talking about. Because there have been some bad social riots recently, the first level of alert has been issued, but they are only protecting the villa. Of course you can go out if you want."
Tang Guanqi blinked his thick eyelashes: "Really?"