Yu Songsong was a very strong-willed girl. When she liked something, she liked it; when she didn't, she didn't.
If someone made her uncomfortable, she would retaliate without the slightest mercy.
Yet, even such a person as her had things she least wanted to mention.
She had poured out many emotions to Jiang Linyuan, but regarding family, she had never revealed even a hint.
She didn't want to, nor was she willing to let Jiang Linyuan know about this matter.
"What is Senior talking about? What living expenses?"
Yu Songsong typed her question.
Jiang Linyuan's reply was concise:
"The person who called your mother was me. I was the one who told her to come to Jinling."
In that instant, Yu Songsong's mind made many connections, but the emotions that surged up were faster than her own thoughts.
She didn't have time to discern whether this feeling was anger or shame before directly dialing Jiang Linyuan's number.
The moment the call connected, she shouted:
"Jiang Linyuan, what have you done?!"
She suppressed her voice, sounding like both a roar and a sob.
After a pause of several seconds, Jiang Linyuan's voice finally sounded:
"Is that question important? Rather than thinking about this, I suggest you, Junior, should think about how to deal with your mother instead."
"I hate you, Jiang Linyuan."
After a long moment, Yu Songsong said.
"Good, remember this feeling, and vent it all out when facing your mother. But I'm guessing you might not be able to do that, Junior."
"Neither in the past, nor in the future."
Jiang Linyuan said with complete indifference.
Yu Songsong was silent for a while, then sneered coldly:
"What could someone as self-righteous as you possibly understand! You don't understand anything! I hate you, I hate people like you from the bottom of my heart!"
After saying this, she didn't give Jiang Linyuan a chance to reply, hanging up the phone as if fleeing.
Powerlessly putting down her phone, Yu Songsong lowered her eyelids, a sense of sorrow echoing in her heart.
Yu Songsong, you truly are a vicious woman. Senior was clearly helping you. You should have communicated with him properly, yet you were somewhat angry, somewhat in pain.
You were thinking, your most unsightly wound had been seen by someone, you had made a fool of yourself in front of Senior.
You were also thinking, you had every reason to complain, to blame Jiang Linyuan! Who told him to interfere in my affairs?
Thinking this, she was suddenly shocked, realizing something both ridiculous and tragic.
Yu Songsong, you are so much like your mother.
This was truly a despairing yet undeniable fact.
Thinking this, Yu Songsong wiped her face, a trace of a sorrowful smile actually appearing on it.
Her mother was still waiting for her at the station.
...
This Thief Saint, playing hit-and-run too, huh.
Always knows to run, run, run.
Why not take out that fierceness of yours and use it to deal with your mother!
But it's fine, this time I won't let you run away.
Jiang Linyuan put down his phone, looked at the bustling scene of people coming and going in the station, and pulled Yu Songsong's mother's number out of the blacklist.
The call came not long after.
Jiang Linyuan answered the phone, and the other party immediately launched into a torrent of abuse:
"You dare to answer my call! You damned scammer!"
How audacious, still daring to slander me! And not even admitting your mistake proactively!
You say what she said is right?
Her mistake is that she was right!
Jiang Linyuan ignored it, looked at the middle-aged woman in front of him who was on the phone cursing furiously, and hung up.
"Excuse me, are you Yu Songsong's mother from Xingnan University?"
He walked up and asked Yu Songsong's mother.
Yu Songsong's mother, having been hung up on, was fuming. Hearing the familiar voice, she couldn't help but curse:
"You scammer! You dare to come find me?!"
Good, those who point out my faults to my face shall receive the ultimate punishment!
"Haha, Auntie, you're so funny. What did I scam you out of?"
Jiang Linyuan asked with a smile.
Yu Songsong's mother couldn't speak. Say she was scammed out of three train ticket fares?
When the police came, she'd just say this young man and the high-speed rail station were in cahoots, specializing in ticket scams?
How ridiculous is that.
"Young man, how can you have no integrity at all! Didn't you say you'd reimburse the ticket fare!"
Yu Songsong's mother could only grumble and curse.
"If I said I wanted to buy you a house, would you believe me?"
Jiang Linyuan rolled his eyes.
Stinky out-of-towner begging from me?
Yu Songsong's mother could clearly hear his sarcasm. Furious, she took a swift step forward, wanting to have a proper argument with Jiang Linyuan.
But who knew he deliberately leaned his body forward, bumping into her.
Then,
"Ah!"
They saw Jiang Linyuan fly straight out, even rolling twice on the ground, looking completely unable to get up.
Yu Songsong's mother: ...
What's going on? She didn't even use any force!
Seeing the people around the station looking over, she felt a bit panicked.
Are people in big cities all like this? Never seen this before!
Yu Songsong's mother immediately felt a bit guilty, pretended not to see, turned her head, and started to leave.
But at that moment, Jiang Linyuan grabbed her foot.
"Oh dear, Auntie, I'm having trouble breathing. You can't leave."
Damn it, it's a scam!
Yu Songsong's mother suddenly realized.
This young man looks handsome and clean-cut, why does he only do inhuman things!
Seeing security personnel approaching, Yu Songsong's mother felt she couldn't explain herself clearly and decided to also fall to the ground.
"Ouch, ouch~"
By this time, Jiang Linyuan had already stood up with a beaming smile.
He looked at Yu Songsong's mother lying on the ground, raised both hands, grinned, and turned to look at the security personnel.
"Uncle, this person is running a scam."
Damn it!
She couldn't catch her breath. These words truly infuriated Yu Songsong's mother. What thief crying stop thief, shifting blame, she pointed a trembling finger at Jiang Linyuan:
"You! You—!"
The physically robust Yu Songsong's mother clutched her chest, experiencing the feeling of chest tightness and shortness of breath for the first time, and also recognizing the sinister nature of people in big cities for the first time.
"The world's morals are declining. Who would have thought, it's not that there are fewer bad people, but that the bad people have grown old."
Looking at Yu Songsong's mother on the ground, taking long breaths in and short breaths out, Jiang Linyuan sighed with emotion.
At this point, Yu Songsong's mother was so angry her vision went dark.
You damn bastard must be a reincarnated bad old person!
Seeing this, the security personnel was amused. This auntie's scam acting skills were quite realistic, as if she really had the wind knocked out of her.
He pointed to a corner and said:
"I'll remind you, there are surveillance cameras here."
After saying this, he couldn't help but advise:
"Auntie, you're from out of town, right? Who comes to a station to run a scam? Next time, find a place without cameras."
"Let me add one more thing, scamming is already a sunset industry. You're not at sunset age yet, don't go messing up the market..."
Hearing the security personnel's rambling words, Yu Songsong's mother found it even harder to breathe.
I'm the victim here!
The people in this big city, not a single good one!
"Senior?"
When Yu Songsong arrived at the station with a heavy heart and saw her mother collapsed at the station entrance and Jiang Linyuan grinning beside her, her brain short-circuited.
You tricked my mother into coming here just to have her cosplay a roadblock?