"Hello, is this Xiao Wei? It's your dad!"
A voice that was both familiar and strange came from the other end of the phone. It was a call from that man.
"It's me. What is it?"
Li Wei was a little dazed. He thought it might be because he had just woken up, but he still answered with his usual cold expression and calm tone.
"It's nothing. Haven't you graduated from university? You need to learn to stand on your own from now on. Don't come looking for me unless you have to. If things really don't work out, isn't there still someone on your mother's side?"
There was a sense of ease and relief in that man's voice, as though he had finally gotten rid of some burden.
"Fine, I understand. I won't contact you again. Goodbye."
An inexplicable wave of sorrow rose in Li Wei's heart, but he quickly forced it down.
Without waiting for the man to say anything else, he hung up and deleted the number from his phone.
His fingers tapped idly across the screen as he unconsciously opened another green-bubble messaging app. Sure enough, that woman had blocked him and deleted him from her contacts as well.
"Heh... I really am that hated."
Li Wei let out a self-mocking, cold laugh. Though he still felt that something was off, the overwhelming sense of loss and abandonment made him instinctively cast that feeling aside.
His grandparents were dead, and his parents no longer considered him their son. In this world, he was completely alone!
"Knock, knock." A knock suddenly sounded at the door, followed by a voice Li Wei knew well. "Xiao Wei, who are you talking to? Come out and eat!"
"I'm coming, Grandma!" Li Wei instinctively answered, unable to stop himself from wiping