Chapter 47 The Temperamental School Bully 25 (1/2)

The crystal chandelier in the Chu family villa was still lit at three in the morning, but only three people were sitting in the hall, pacing anxiously.

"Call again! Call several more times with a different phone number, that ingrate can't possibly ignore the call!!!"

Mr. Chu slammed the teacup onto the marble floor, and shards of porcelain nearly flew onto Mrs. Chu.

"The user you dialed is temporarily unavailable..."

With a gloomy face, Chu's mother switched to a maid's phone and dialed a number. She heard a cold, mechanical female voice on the other end of the line for what seemed like the umpteenth time.

Chu Baiyi was also unable to get through. With trembling hands, she sent text messages to Zixi and Jiang Yanli. At first, she apologized softly, but later she vented her anger with curses.

What's the point of them dealing with the Chu family like this?!

She's already apologized to Jiang Yanli, why won't he let her family go?!

According to the police, if Zi Xi insists on not reaching a settlement, Chu Chenzhou faces at least five to ten years in prison!

When Chu's mother and father heard the news, they fainted on the spot. The first thing they did after waking up was to send people to surround Zi Xi's apartment complex, only to find that she had already left.

After giving the community security guards a bribe, they received information that someone had left with a suitcase a few days earlier.

"Have a private investigator check the surveillance footage! Go through every single camera in the city! I refuse to believe she can grow wings and fly away!!"

"Keep fighting!"

Mr. Chu roared at his assistant on the other end of the phone, ordering Mrs. Chu and Chu Baiyi to keep calling Zixi.

Meanwhile, a few thousand meters away in Qingxi Ancient Town, Zixi was standing on a stone arch bridge, biting off the last candied hawthorn on a bamboo skewer.

The sweet and sour taste of hawthorn melted on her tongue, and she squinted her eyes, feeling the coolness of the morning mist brushing against her cheeks.

"Is it delicious, baby? Your boyfriend wants some too."

Jiang Yanli leaned against the bridge railing, and her phone camera secretly took a series of pictures of her profile. She even pointed to her lips in a coquettish manner.

Zi Xi nodded, licked the sugar crumbs off her lips, glanced at him, and thought, "I ate the last one. Why didn't you say so earlier?"

This action made Jiang Yanli's Adam's apple bob. He pretended to adjust his focus to hide his burning ears. He didn't want to eat candied hawthorns anymore; he wanted to eat her.

Where to go next?

Zi Xi inquired about the subsequent procedures, her voice softer than usual, like melting maltose.

Jiang Yanli's hand trembled as she locked the screen, and the screen displayed a newly taken photo. Zi Xi's eyelashes were as transparent as butterfly wings in the morning light.

"Netizens say there's a really good tofu pudding place in front of this town."

He hurriedly opened his phone's memo app, checked the guide, and pointed to a narrow alley under the bridge crowded with morning market stalls.

They followed the flow of people down the stone bridge. Jiang Yanli's hand hovered behind Zixi, hesitant to touch her yet afraid that she would be pushed by the crowd.

It wasn't until a middle-aged man carrying a candied hawthorn stand barged in that he took the opportunity to grab Zixi tightly.

Zi Xi did not break free. Her wrist was slender, and Jiang Yanli could feel her pulse beating under his thumb, which seemed to be faster than usual.

He tentatively slid down a little bit and gently held her fingers, and Zi Xi did not struggle!

Zi Xi's hand was a size smaller than his, and it was lying obediently in his hand at the moment.

Jiang Yanli felt as if her heart was about to leap out of her chest.

He glanced at Zi Xi and noticed that she was intently watching an old craftsman selling bamboo-woven crickets by the roadside, and her ear tips were as red and translucent as his.

"Young man and young woman, are you a student couple visiting this town? This is our local specialty, sweet tofu pudding!"

The tofu pudding vendor greeted us warmly.

Just as Jiang Yanli was about to deny the term "couple," she suddenly realized that they were indeed a couple!

Zi Xi nodded and said, "Hello, we'd like two bowls, and this one will have extra osmanthus honey."

She remembered that he preferred sweet food to chili peppers.

Jiang Yanli's brain went blank on the spot, and she only came back to her senses when the steaming hot osmanthus honey bean curd was placed in front of her.