BDB Chapter 28

Jiang Rao hung up this call even faster than the previous one.

Not only did she hang up quickly, but she also removed the phone’s back cover, took out the battery, and snapped the SIM card in half before tossing it into the trash.

She should have felt relieved after doing all this, but in the quiet moments that followed, the words from the call kept replaying uncontrollably in her mind.

“You’re fine? But I’m not fine. Where have you gone?”

“But I’m not fine.”

“But I’m not fine. Where have you gone?”

“You’re fine?”

…

The voice had been gloomy and lingering, and before hearing it, Jiang Rao had never imagined that a single voice could convey such seemingly incompatible emotions.

Jiang Rao was generally carefree, but even she couldn’t avoid feeling tense in this situation.

And when people were extremely nervous, they often became paranoid.

As the train arrived at the so-called City K, her steps unconsciously moved towards the train door.

She had planned to throw her phone out of the train, but when she saw the conductor standing by the door, she had to abandon that idea, realizing it would look suspicious no matter how she did it.

Never mind. She could throw the phone away when she got off the train.

Province H was so large with so many people. Even if the male lead knew which city she was in, it wouldn’t be easy for him to find her.

Turning back into the train, she noticed the old lady in the lower bunk was hastily packing her things to get off.

“You’re getting off at this stop?”

“Yes.”

Jiang Rao was still uneasy about the phone that had received a call from the male lead. She thought for a moment and said, “This phone is broken, and I want to throw it away, but I haven’t reached my stop yet. Could you help me take it out and throw it away?”

The old lady, who was already rushing due to having been late from the restroom, glanced at the young woman. Seeing that she looked a bit dark but with bright eyes and a sincere demeanor, she agreed without much thought.

City K’s stop lasted fifteen minutes.

Just before the end of the fifteen minutes, the old lady finally made it out of the train with her luggage.

As the train began to move again, Jiang Rao watched the old lady’s figure recede and then looked up.

The train’s announcement came on once more, “Ladies and gentlemen, the current time is 21:08. This is the K1827 train…”

Jiang Rao paid no more attention to the announcement.

She gazed at the rare full moon in the sky, and after a while, closed her eyes and silently wished.

The future would be better.

It definitely would be.

…

Perhaps it was the blessing of the full moon.

Despite the poor conditions while sleeping at night, Jiang Rao had an unusually pleasant dream.

In the dream, she appeared somewhat strange. Her originally frail body seemed to have swelled up like dough rising.

What puzzled her was that while eating too much usually led to weight gain and increased strength, she felt only bloated and weak, with her whole body feeling tired and powerless.

Even when she had just crossed over and taken on the frail, sickly body of the original owner, she had never felt this exhausted.

The male lead’s reaction to her had also changed significantly.

He no longer tormented her physically and emotionally in the dreams as he had earlier.

Nor did he unleash endless energy and desires towards her as he did later.

Although he held her every night while they slept, he did not make any advances.

For the first time, time in the dream seemed to fast-forward.

It was an early morning with the first light of dawn. Feeling unusually lazy, she rarely woke up early and decided to push open the villa door to go downstairs for breakfast.

However, as she approached the door, she heard a conversation from outside the not-quite-closed door.

“She won’t drink this kind of soup. Seeing it will only make her think more. Don’t make it anymore.”

“Raorao has had so many miscarriages because she wasn’t taken care of properly! You stay out of it; this time I must personally help my granddaughter-in-law recover. You may not want a son, but I, an old woman, still want to hold a grandson!”

She huddled by the door, her vision was clear enough to catch every detail of the pain and dejection on his face.

He said, “She’s clearly a fragile porcelain, but I treated her like an indestructible rock, trying to chisel it into what I wanted.”

He smiled, but his face was filled with bitterness, “Grandma, it won’t happen anymore. I’ve ruined her.”

The next morning, when Jiang Rao woke up, it was just barely light outside.

She didn’t feel any particular discomfort.

Strangely, she had dreamt once again of scenes after the plot ended.

She had long suspected that the difficulty the male lead had in getting the female lead pregnant was due to his mistreatment, making the dream seem unnecessary.

She got off the train.

The sunrise from the east gradually cleared away the last bit of gloom left by the dream.

At this point, she had actually distanced herself from the plot. The original female lead had never managed to escape as long as she had.

She thought to herself.

She needed to be careful, cautious.

The male lead would absolutely have no part in her future life!

She would never end up with the same fate as the female lead.

She walked out of the station.

Meanwhile, at City A in an ancient castle complex halfway up the mountain, Li Jueyan’s closed eyes suddenly opened.

He had never associated not being able to conceive a child with those scenes in his dreams where he and she were “pitting their wits against each other” and “loving and fighting each other”.

But now, it suddenly made sense.

She was so delicate and weak.

Even a small rain from artificial precipitation could make her sick.

It took a long time for her to recover from being a sickly little thing to someone who seemed fully spirited.

Yet, in the dream, why did he act like such an idiot towards her?

He had always had a good memory since he was young.

Picking up the phone from his bedside, he dialed the number from yesterday again. Hearing the system prompt that the user was not available, his face darkened, “Still off? Even if you’re turned off, I’ll find you, believe it or not?”

But how was he supposed to find her?

He had already contacted the police station.

They told him that her ID hadn’t been used recently.

He had also contacted the bank.

But besides withdrawing money from a bank in City A yesterday, she had not used her bank card again.

As he ate his breakfast, Butler Gu approached and said, “Young Master Li, someone called for Madam Bai. She’s insisting on seeing you.”

It was around eight o’clock.

After a night had passed, Bai Yurou was taken to a second room that was brightly lit as day and locked up for the entire night.

She was terrified of the bright, unending room, which kept her awake and unable to calm her heart.

Loneliness made one more alert.

When she heard a noise by the door, she quickly stood up from her spot. “Young Master Li, I’ll tell you which train Jiang Rao took and where her destination is if you let me go, okay?”

Li Jueyan’s eyes darkened. “Are you trying to play games with me?”

Although the GPS location from the cell phone when the call connected showed that the signal originated from City K, with so many vehicles passing through City K every day, each heading in different directions and to different destinations, it was impossible for him to determine which train she was on and where it was headed.

Could Bai Yurou really know?

But it turned out Bai Yurou did know.

Driven to the brink, she dared not play tricks any longer. Trembling, she handed the phone over. “Try calling the first number in the call history.”

As soon as the call was connected, an elderly voice came through.

“Are you the family of that little lady? Hurry up and give me an address so I can send the phone to you. This is such a nice, brand-new phone. That little lady must have made a mistake, which is why she asked me to throw it away. I can’t just discard it like that.”

“Hello! Hello!”

Li Jueyan responded quickly, “I’m listening.”

His face brightened like the weather clearing up after a rainy March.

He knew he would find her.

She couldn’t escape.

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