C3 Is It so Hard to Put Her in the Address Book

Chapter Three: Was it that hard to put her in the address book?

There were still twenty days until her father's sentencing. If she could not raise more money in those twenty days, her father would probably come out of prison with a head full of white hair.

Investor?

Thinking about what Mr. Ji just said, Lu Yao hesitated. She took out her phone from her pocket, opened up her contact book and slid down. She looked at the number that she had memorized by heart.

At the beginning, she wrote Shao Yunchen's name as her husband and purposely added a name at the front so that his name would appear at the very front of the contact list.

However, in the past three years, the number of times Shao Yunchen had texted her could be counted on one hand. Over time, she changed her husband to Shao Yunchen. She wouldn't bother him unless it was something important.

Lu Yao dialed the number and threw the cigarette into the toilet. She went out to get some water to rinse her mouth.

Her voice was a little hoarse from smoking just now. If she didn't deal with it, Shao Yunchen would find out when he picked up her phone. The face on the other end of the line was bound to turn ugly.

"Hello, who is this?"

The call was picked up very quickly, but what made Lu Yao shiver was that the person who answered the phone was a woman. She was naturally very familiar with the way she asked questions, as if she had received many such calls.

Seeing that Lu Yao did not make a sound, she asked again, "Hello?"

It took Lu Yao a long time to recover her wits. When she opened her mouth, her voice was hard to hear, "I'm looking for Shao Yunchen, is he there?"

"Chen is in a meeting." The woman's call was casual and natural, as if she was the one holding the authority of the whole world: "Please tell me what your surname is, I don't think Chen has saved your number …"

Lu Yao hung up the phone in a hurry without waiting for her to speak. Her hands were shaking and her phone was falling off at the end. With a dull thud, she hurriedly picked it up.

Lu Yao looked at her face from the shattered screen. She didn't know when she had started crying. She looked as if she had lost all her family members, and was in as much of a sorry state as she could muster.

She had been married to Shao Yunchen for three years, three seasons. According to other people, they could already be considered as an old couple, but he had never saved her number.

Was it that hard to put her in the address book?

And that woman …

Lu Yao shivered when she thought of that phone call from three minutes ago.

Shao Yunchen's attitude was always so cold. It was not as if Lu Yao never suspected that he might have raised other women outside the family. However, the two of them signed a contract.

Lu Yao had always believed in Shao Yunchen. However, the phone call today, the other party's ambiguous title changed her mind.

The crack in her heart that was not too obvious had begun to widen.

Lu Yao didn't care if it was Sunday or not, Shao Yunchen would come home.

She got off work at 5: 30 p.m. on time. As she drove past the supermarket, she stopped by to buy some fresh fruits and vegetables.

Her culinary skills had always been very good. She learned from her mother and made all sorts of dishes for Shao Yunchen to eat after they got married. However, Shao Yunchen came back once a week according to the contract.

As time passed, Lu Yao couldn't be bothered to cook anymore. If Shao Yunchen came back for the weekend, they would have to cook. When he wasn't around, she ordered takeout. Only occasionally, when she was in a good mood, did she cook.

The cellphone in the living room was playing music, so Lu Yao, who was busy in the kitchen, naturally didn't hear the door open.

"Ah!

She was accidentally cut while picking her gills, and Lu Yao screamed as she pulled out her finger. It was covered in blood.

Before she could react, someone seemed to be approaching from behind. His outstretched hand took her fingers and rinsed them under the faucet, and Lu Yao's heart missed two beats from the heat of his palm.

Other than his lips, the man's body was always warm.

"When you buy fish, won't you let others help you?" Wiping her fingers with a tissue, Shao Yunchen put a bandage on them. His actions looked gentle, but his expression was still as calm as before.

Lu Yao muttered softly, "I forgot about it just because I was anxious to buy something …"