Back in the town, her mother never turned off all the lights of the house. Be whatever be the case, she would keep at least the light of a single room on.
However, she didn't know if her mother would apply that formula here as well or not. Could she be really sleeping? But her mother can't sleep in complete darkness!
As she paced in the corridor analysing different possibilities, she couldn't help but think of how tiring the day had been.
The last she closed her eyes was twenty-six hours back and after that, she had been continuously shooting back-to-back scenes and all of that was only for her to return to a frightening apartment.
While lamenting about her destiny, a face unconsciously made an unwanted appearance in her brain.
She paused in her steps but then shook her face harshly. Why was she thinking of that nameless man? Focus! It was not the time to think about that heartless person who left her in the cold water to die.
Because it was the season of winter, standing outside at four in the morning was a pretty bad idea thus she gathered her strength and after calculating something bent down to remove her shoes.
Picking them in her hands, Zhao Yuhui opened the door and carefully closed it behind her.
She had been living in this apartment for a year now so moving in darkness was not a big deal for her. It was not like she had placed antique vases or something that cost her a fortune at the corners.
Moving on her tiptoes she proceeded towards her room and as she was passing by her mother's room, she peeked through the window to see her sleeping form residing beneath the warm blankets.
Zhao Yuhui looked relieved and instantly rushed to her room at full speed.
She threw the shoes in her hands aside and moved to the bedside table to diminish the darkness her room was living under.
However, she left a shriek as soon as she turned around, "Arghhhh!!"
Her mother whom Zhao Yuhui had thought to be sleeping was sitting on her bed, leaning her head against the headboard. Zhao Yuhui had just seen the bundled up blanket over a body! Then how come her mother was here within a second??
She wanted to cry on realising that her mother played a trick with her.
The next second, her mother opened her eyes surrounded by dark circles and directed them at her.
Her eyes didn't appear drowsy at all, in fact, they looked completely energetic.
With a fear-stricken face, Zhao Yuhui awkwardly smiled trying to disregard the fast thumping of her heart, "Mom! W-what are you doing here? Why aren't you sleeping in your room?"
The activeness too disappeared as Mother Zhao's eyes turned sharp on hearing the question. "Do you think four in the morning is any time to return home?"
"Four? Is it four already? I think you are wrong, mom." Zhao Yuhui tried acting oblivious of the time as if it would benefit her in any way. She still wanted to give it a try.
"You! You think I am a fool? Don't play your acting games with me." Mother Zhao shut her eyes while trying to control the rage building inside her. This daughter of hers would never know how worried she had been!
Zhao Yuhui flinched from the yell and reflexively her hand went up to close her ears. "Now you are closing your ears, huh? Nowadays, you youngsters don't even care to tell your parents your whereabouts! Who knows the kind of things that goes on in your mind?"
"You must be thinking that my mother is a guest, she had just come to stay for a few days so it is not even necessary to tell her where I am! You might as well have returned when the sun would have risen at its peak! Why you came so early?"
"Tell me the truth, every time I used to call you when I was not here, did that time too you lied that you were at home?"
"Mom, why are you speaking things like that? I am not thinking anything but we got late because of shooting!"
"In which era do you live? If you were busy shooting, couldn't you have taken out just ten seconds to leave a message to me?? It wasn't like you had to send a message through a pigeon."
"But look at you! Shouting at your mother on top of that. Ungrateful daughter!"
Zhao Yuhui got scared when her mother stood up from the bed, "Mom! Ahh! I am sorry! I was at fault, I was at fault! Don't come near!"
Mother Zhao looked at her daughter annoyingly. Always like this! Always going against her!
"For what you are sorry, huh? Do you even mean a single thing that you tell me?? There was only one condition because of which I let you enter into this acting field that you would never be out till late at night. And if you would really have to, just inform me beforehan."
Zhao Yuhui backed her feet when she saw her mother approaching her. When she realised that there was a wall behind her, she made a jump up on her bed and rolled over to the other side.
"Mom, please let me explain. It wasn't intentional this time though. Please!" Zhao Yuhui felt intimidated when her mother looked at her with red eyes replenished with anger. Why had everyone been looking at her with anger today?
"When is it even intentional? Every time you bring excuses like you got busy in scenes, you were tired, the director did not let you use your phone and many more."
"But all of that is true mom!!" Zhao Yuhui helplessly uttered.
"How could it be that you can't even find a single minute, a single minute just to send a message huh? Do I cross your mind even for a second?"
"Obviously, mom. What are you talking about?" Zhao Yuhui wanted to bang her head somewhere after hearing her mother's accusations. "If you wouldn't come to my mind who else would?"