Chapter 1305: Chapter 1304: Inner Anxiety, Restlessness, and Hesitation
Gu Tong glanced around and said, "You’re nearby?"
Xia Xi replied decisively, "Nope!"
Gu Tong raised her brows and said, "Then how do you know I’ve tossed you aside?"
Xia Xi: "..." She’d just been talking nonsense, but who would’ve thought this girl really put men over friends to this extent—actually ignoring her calls and dumping her to the side...
Waa waa waa, so sad, so miserable, so hopeless...
Xia Xi puckered her lips and said, "Isn’t it obvious? You just met up with Li Yan, of course a short separation feels like a new honeymoon. You’re all wrapped up in your hot little romance, how would you have any mood to bother with me."
What she said really didn’t sound wrong.
Gu Tong picked up the Cappuccino on the table and took a sip, saying, "We’d just parted not long ago and you already have something to talk to me about?"
So just because they’d just parted she wasn’t allowed to need her...
Xia Xi cleared her throat and said, "Yeah, something did come up. After I got back, I raided the Demon King’s room. I found out he’s investigating our social circle. If I’m not wrong, he’s trying to rule out points of overlap and see whether we knew each other before."
Gu Tong’s hand paused slightly. She casually set the coffee cup back on the table and said, "Two people who’d never met suddenly hit it off at first sight, and in a few days are as close as real sisters—if it were anyone else, they’d feel a bit surprised too, right?"
As for what Xia Xi said, Gu Tong wasn’t the least bit surprised; on the contrary, she felt it was perfectly natural.
For this kind of thing, never mind Gong Chenli, that man who’s good at suspecting everything—even if it were anyone else, they’d probably let their imagination run wild and be unable to calm down.
So this was basically something you could see coming, not some unexpected twist.
Xia Xi bit her lower lip and said, "You’re not afraid he’ll notice something?" You had to know, the relationship between Gong Chenli and Li Yan was way too close, and both of them were sharp as a tack. If they slipped even a little, it would lead to something they couldn’t talk their way out of.
If this had been asked in the past, Gu Tong would definitely have said she didn’t want that, and would’ve planned out ways to hide it together with Xia Xi.
But...
Right now, she’d changed her mind!
She genuinely wanted to share with Li Yan, even if it was certain experiences, or just telling him about a particular emotion.
She was willing to open up her heart now...
Instead of shutting herself off from the man she loved.
"I’m not afraid." Gu Tong said unhurriedly, "All my joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness are for him—so why shouldn’t I tell him about the process too."
Just that one sentence...
Slipped into Xia Xi’s heart without warning, like water seeping into a crack—impossible to get rid of...
Xia Xi didn’t deny what Gu Tong said. She directly acknowledged it, saying, "What you said... makes a lot of sense..."
She didn’t know why, but she felt Gu Tong’s words were very convincing to her.
After all, only someone who’d been through this kind of thing could really understand.
As for everyone else, they basically had no right to say a word.
It was precisely because of this that Xia Xi went to Gu Tong for help right away instead of asking someone else to talk her through it—because they knew each other best.
Gu Tong took a sip of coffee and said, "It doesn’t matter how reasonable I sound. There are plenty of ’truths’ out there. The real question is whether you want to listen."
Sure enough, she understood her best...
Gu Tong could tell why she’d rushed to call. By rights, Xia Xi clearly knew she was with Li Yan, and if it wasn’t urgent, she wouldn’t deliberately interrupt...
Xia Xi had found out Gong Chenli was looking into her, and the anxiety in her heart—restless, panicked, lost—couldn’t settle. That’s why she’d gone to Gu Tong at such a bad time. It was like seeking out a soulmate to talk to, a way to ease and soothe her unease.
Xia Xi said vaguely, "I’ll think about it a bit more..."