Don't meet me in your next life.

"Your brother is fine. He just lost his phone. I just called Xiao Zhao." After confirming that Lin Lubai was alright, Lu Yaodong called Lu Sichen back.

"Did my brother answer the phone?" Lu Sichen asked.

“I answered, and I told him you were looking for him,” Lu Yaodong said.

"Oh, Grandpa, could you give me my assistant's phone number?" Lu Sichen hung up the phone with his grandfather.

“Your brother said he’ll call you later,” Lu Yaodong said.

"Okay. I'll hang up now, thank you, Grandpa." Lu Sichen hung up the phone.

After hanging up the phone, Lu Sichen quickly dialed Xiang Yiyi's number again.

"Yi Yi, my brother is fine, don't worry, he just lost his phone," Lu Sichen quickly said.

"Oh, you lost your phone." Xiang Yi didn't suspect anything, after all, Lu Sichen had never lied to her except for that one time.

“Yes, we couldn’t get through to him on the phone. It was Grandpa who got his assistant’s number and called his assistant that we found out,” Lu Sichen explained.

"Okay, it's good that you're alright. Thank you, Lu Sichen." Xiang Yi breathed a sigh of relief and pouted. As long as she knew he was alright, that was all that mattered.

"I'll tell him to call you back when he calls me back," Lu Sichen reassured her.

"okay."

"Uh, let's not do it. I'm afraid he'll misunderstand. Let me know when you can get through to him on the phone," Xiang Yiyi quickly refused.

"Okay. You're that afraid of him...?"

“As long as you know he’s alright, don’t worry. If anything happens to Grandma, just tell me. If you need more money, I have some,” Lu Sichen said to Xiang Yi.

Xiang Yiyi was worried about Lin Lubai. "Okay, thank you. My grandma and I have savings, enough for us." Xiang Yiyi was very touched, but she didn't know what to do. They couldn't go back.

She figured Lin Lubai was angry and didn't want to talk to her. Since she could get through to his assistant, why didn't he call her to explain? Maybe he was still angry. She should keep her distance from Lu Sichen; after all, she was married, and he was her ex-boyfriend, Lin Lubai's "enemy."

"Could you please not say thank you? It sounds really awkward to me." Lu Sichen felt a tightness in his chest. Xiang Yiyi was now deliberately keeping her distance from him.

"Okay, then, goodbye," Xiang Yi said.

"Okay, goodbye. Take care of yourself," Lu Sichen said, not forgetting to give instructions.

After hanging up the phone, Lu Sichen stared blankly at the screen, wondering how to communicate with his brother and how to resolve their conflict.

His head started throbbing violently again, so he quickly took out an ibuprofen extended-release tablet from the drawer to make himself feel a little better.

Lu Sichen stayed up until 2 a.m., hoping Lin Lubai would call him, but Lin Lubai didn't call him, and Lin Lubai's phone was still unreachable.

"Is it because my brother really thinks that I forced Xiang Yiyi into this situation, and that's why he's angry with me and won't even call me? Or is he also struggling with what to do?"

Lu Sichen lay in bed with these thoughts swirling in his mind until he finally fell asleep around 2 a.m.

Lin Lubai lost a lot of blood and was so weak that he slept fitfully for two hours.

When she woke up and saw that the family doctor hadn't arrived yet, she got angry and insisted on being discharged.

"Xiao Zhao, let's discharge him first. When the family doctor arrives, we'll have him go directly to the hotel," Lin Lubai ordered.

"Mr. Lin, we'll wait another hour. The family doctor will be here in an hour, okay?" Xiao Zhao said to Lin Lubai as if coaxing a child.

"I'm really fine. Can't you let me go back first and the doctor come directly to the hotel?" Lin Lubai said to Xiao Zhao, somewhat angrily.

"No, I can't let you go back before the doctor arrives. I can't take that risk again." Xiao Zhao firmly disagreed.

When Lin Lubai was 19, he was injured during a field training exercise and hospitalized. He insisted on being discharged. At that time, Xiao Zhao was still a child, and he did whatever Lin Lubai said, so he took him home. However, the family doctor didn't arrive, and Lin Lubai fainted in his room. That incident almost cost Lin Lubai his life. From that moment on, whenever the doctor required hospitalization, he wouldn't leave the hospital without a family doctor present.

Unable to resist Xiao Zhao's insistence, Lin Lubai, still feeling weak, could only lie down and wait, but the awful smell of the hospital made him very uncomfortable.

"Not here yet?"

"Ask him where he is?"

"Is it coming soon?"

"how much longer?"

For the entire hour, Lin Lubai asked Xiao Zhao questions repeatedly until the family doctor entered the ward, at which point Xiao Zhao finally breathed a sigh of relief.

In the end, Xiao Zhao and the family doctor took Lin Lubai back to the hotel.

"Mr. Lin, the engineering team said it's too dark and they'll have to look for the phone tomorrow." The engineering team called on the way, saying that it was too dark and Lin Lubai's phone couldn't be found, so they would have to wait until the next day to look for it.

Hearing this, Lin Lubai was somewhat disappointed. He really hoped to see Xiang Yiyi's call on his phone.

"Maybe she doesn't miss me, maybe she's just getting revenge on me. The person she loves is Lu Sichen."

Lin Lubai's face darkened. He knew perfectly well that he and Lu Sichen had never been intimate, but he still couldn't help but care, especially when he saw her worrying about Lu Sichen and covering for him. It felt like he had been stabbed with a knife.

He missed her terribly, but he was also afraid. She hadn't contacted him for the past two days. Was she already planning to give up? If he could, he wouldn't want a divorce. Even if she loved Lu Sichen, he wanted to keep her by his side for the rest of his life.

Seeing Lin Lubai's gloomy face, neither of them dared to make a sound. It was only August, but Xiao Zhao already felt the air in the car was cold and damp.

Xiang Yi rested for a morning, then went to the ICU to see her grandmother in the afternoon, and didn't return home from the hospital until evening.

After tidying up, Xiang Yi thought for a moment and sent Lin Lubai a message: Did you find the phone?

After sending the message and receiving no response, I made a phone call, but it still couldn't be connected.

He definitely hasn't replaced the card yet, otherwise he would have contacted me as soon as he saw the message, Xiang Yi comforted herself by touching her lower abdomen.

With Lin Lubai and the children constantly on her mind, Xiang Yi couldn't fall asleep until midnight.

As dawn broke, Xiang Yi vaguely heard the phone ringing.

At 5 a.m., Xiang Yi's phone rang urgently. She thought it was Lin Lubai, but then she saw that it was a call from the hospital.

"Xiang Yiyi, you need to come to the hospital right away. Your grandmother, Liu Xiuzhen, is not doing well," the attending physician called Xiang Yiyi.

Without even changing out of her pajamas, Xiang Yi put on a coat and rushed to the hospital. Her heart was pounding; she didn't want anything to happen to her grandmother.

The hospital was empty in the early morning, just like Xiang Yiyi's heart.

She rushed upstairs to the emergency room, praying that her grandmother would also be saved this time.

This time, however, the doctor told her to prepare herself mentally.