Lin Mantong's pupils suddenly widened, staring at him in disbelief. She had kept this matter extremely secret, even making calls in deserted corners. How could he know?
"I didn't, I didn't, don't speak nonsense!" Lin Mantong bit her lip, afraid of being exposed, and had no intention of arguing with him. She turned around and tried to run upstairs.
Song Zeyuan grabbed her arm and easily pulled her back. "Don't run away, I know you need money. I have plenty of money here. How about this, you stay with me for a night, and I'll give you ten thousand yuan. What do you say?"
Lin Mantong didn't expect him to be so straightforward. Her face turned pale in an instant, feeling a sense of humiliation and being played with.
"I don't need money anymore. Don't come looking for me again." After speaking, she rushed back to the dormitory.
Behind her, she faintly heard the man's taunt, "It's useless to run away, I'll wait for you to come to me obediently."
Lin Mantong clenched the medicine bag in her hand, walking even faster.
Until she returned to the dormitory, her heartbeat was still pounding, unable to calm down.
There were people in the dormitory today. Lin Mantong placed her bag on the bed, then hiding in the bathroom with the medicine box, thinking of Song Zeyuan's words, she felt increasingly uneasy.
What is going on with this?
She pondered for a long time but couldn't figure out any reasons. The only person who knew about this matter was Shi Lin. Could it be him?Lin Mantong remembered the man's cold and distant face, unconsciously biting her lip. She took out her phone, opened Shi Lin's chat box, and sent a "Are you there?" message. The next second, a red exclamation mark appeared on the screen.
She had been blocked! Lin Mantong stared at the screen for a full minute before digesting this fact. It seemed that the man really had no intention of having any relationship with her. He probably thought she went to the hospital today on purpose to bother him, didn't he?
Lin Mantong pursed her lips and silently exited WeChat.
"Knock knock!" Someone knocked on the door from outside. "Mianmian, are you feeling better? I need to go to the bathroom, hurry up."
Lin Mantong immediately snapped back to reality, quickly put away her phone, swiftly opened the medicine box in her hand, picked out two pills and swallowed them according to the instructions, then drank some water, hid the medicine box, and opened the door.
Her roommate Mutao was waiting outside and asked in surprise, "Huh, it's strange. Didn't you go to work at the supermarket today?"
Lin Mantong would go out to do odd jobs when she had days off or no classes, so her presence was rarely seen in the dormitory during the day.
"I had something to do today, so I took a leave."
Lin Mantong casually found an excuse, then quickly crawled into the tent under the bed. With only a month left before her internship, she was busy with her final project, and also took on a part-time job in engineering surveying at her advisor's, earning some internship experience and living expenses. Therefore, she didn't have time to spare and immersed herself in her studies.
In the following week, Lin Mantong was busy running between the dormitory and the teaching building every day. She intentionally avoided Song Zeyuan and managed to steer clear of him for the whole weekShe never saw him again. The worry she had didn't cause any disturbances, everything was proceeding as normal, and Lin Mantong's nerves, which had been tense for several days, relaxed secretly.
Perhaps Song Zeyuan had lost interest in her.
This was for the best.
Her father's surgery was also successfully completed, and he was now in the recovery period, needing to stay in the hospital for three months. The surgery cost a lot, and the postoperative medical expenses were not cheap either. After some consideration, Lin Mantong gritted her teeth and transferred another ten thousand, wanting her father to use some good medicine. As long as her father could stand up again, she felt that it was worth doing anything.
On a weekend evening, her roommate Mutao approached her mysteriously and asked, "Mianmian, do you want to make big money?"