Yu Zi took a few deep breaths and picked up the call. "Jingchen."
It was only when she spoke that she realized how hoarse her voice was. The name that rolled off her tongue so easily in the past felt so foreign on her lips now.
On the other end of the phone, it seemed that Yue Jingchen could sense it too.
She heard a silence and the vague hints of a sob.
Yu Zi did not hurry him, waiting for him quietly. After a pause, she finally heard Yue Jingchen's trembling voice over the phone. "Yu Zi, let's… let's talk. You're at your parents' place, right? I went to Autumn Garden earlier, but there was no one there."
That was why he only contacted her this late at night. It was because he had already gone to Autumn Garden to look for her.
"I'm outside your parents' place now, would you come out and meet me? Then we can talk," Yue Jingchen pleaded. He could no longer hold back his sobs.
