Chapter 171 - 170 What’s going on with you two?

The phone was constantly ringing.

Ya Ling casually flicked her long hair, glanced at Lu Mian, then looked at the other two companions, silently asking whether to answer it or not.

Sui Yuan was softhearted and gave a weak nod.

Yuren was an old stick-in-the-mud and remained stoic.

The final decision still fell on Lu Mian.

Lu Mian dipped her chopsticks into the birthday cake, getting a bit of cream which she savored at the edge of her lips. It was only when the ringing was about to cut off automatically that she spoke leisurely.

“Answer it.”

Only after she spoke did the atmosphere around the table liven up a bit.

Ya Ling clicked her tongue, answered the call, and switched to speakerphone.

A low, deliberately restrained male voice came from the other end.

“Ya Ling, it’s me—”

Ya Ling replied coldly, “I know it’s you. What do you want?”

“… Wish Yuanyuan a happy birthday for me. I’ll make up for her birthday gift later!”

Sui Yuan quietly responded with a “sure,” unsure whether the other party could hear.

“Anything else?” Ya Ling continued.

There was a pause on the other end, the voice sounding somewhat hollow: “Is she… there?”

They all knew who ‘she’ was referring to.

Ya Ling was the kind who loved to stir up excitement; a mischievous expression played across her grinning face, “She’s right in front of me. I’ve got it on speaker.”

“…”

The other side went quiet for more than ten seconds, ending with the person sighing deeply in the end.

“I have other things to handle, I’ll hang up now.”

The brief call ended.

Ya Ling spat disgustingly at the screen. This heartless jerk, just a few words in a phone call, not knowing that everyone was actually very…

Forget it.

He had his own thoughts.

After putting away her phone, Ya Ling looked up to see Lu Mian slightly distracted, blinked curiously, and asked, “Mian bro, what’s actually going on between you two?”

Sui Yuan and Yuren were also curious.

All four of them were rescued at different times. After severing ties with their own families, they all tacitly ended up in Mianmian’s hometown. This was another form of support and companionship.

Only that person had chosen a different path from theirs.

They weren’t accusing him, they were just worried about him.

When Lu Mian noticed the burning curiosity in their eyes, he nonchalantly took a bite of the cake and innocently shook his head.

“Nothing at all…”

Everyone: “…”

Since Lu Mian wasn’t telling, they didn’t press further, confident that nothing major could happen.

The bond between the five of them had been tested by life and death; such trifles wouldn’t affect them.

After the call was disconnected, just as Ya Ling set down the phone, it buzzed several more times.

Yuren, like the head of the family, sternly remarked, “Ya Ling, your business is too busy.”

“Old Yu, don’t wrong me. It’s not that I’m busy, it’s clearly Mian bro!” As she spoke, she opened her phone to check, and chuckled, “Someone is desperate to join the stock group, insisting on applying the whole day.”

After saying this, she was still puzzled, “I definitely kicked that person out, and I don’t know how he got the group number again…”

“Cough, cough.” Facing Ya Ling’s puzzled look, Lu Mian smiled faintly and leisurely said, “I gave it to him.”

Ya Ling: …

You’re the boss; what you say goes!

However, since it was Mian bro who allowed it, she suddenly had a “wonderful” idea.

Yuren was unaware of her plan, and simply gave a straight-laced admonition, “Just permanently block that kind of person, to avoid the hassle.”

“No!”

Ya Ling threw her wavy hair back in a bold gesture and smiled seductively, “I have my plans…”