"What's going on? Don't rush. Take your time." Xia Shule could tell that Xiang Lin was genuinely angry about this.
On the other end of the phone, Xiang Lin took a deep breath. "I'll skip all the background. It's a long story, so I'll keep it short."
Actually, Xiang Lin had originally thought the two of them were fellow lunatics. It had been ages since he had met someone so like-minded.
So whenever Lai Jiangtian had anything going on, he would invite him along, and Xiang Lin was happy to go.
"He asked me out today, and I went. I don't know who those business partners of his were, but everything they said was looking down on him. You know how I am. I couldn't help saying a couple of things in his defense, and then he started crying and wailing that he liked me and wanted to be with me forever."
Xia Shule listened attentively and raised a question. "Could he have just been saying it in the heat of the moment?"
"That's what I thought at first too. I didn't take it seriously and just told him to quit fooling around. But then he suddenly got all serious and poured his heart out to me. He said he meant it, that he hadn't realized before, but now he was sure how he felt. Lele, do you know how stunned I was? I was completely stunned..."
"That really is unexpected. I never imagined things would turn out like this. You two were clearly supposed to be fellow lunatics." Xia Shule found it a little hard to imagine.
No matter how he looked at them, those two seemed suited only to being friends.
"I thought we were fellow lunatics too, but then..."
Xia Shule asked, "Then how do you feel?"