Flash Marriage: He is a Wife-pampering Addict

Chapter 2481: Chapter 285: The Breakup Call

That night, Ye Zhan ended up not going to G City.

Because he received a call from Momo at the airport.

He stopped in his tracks, his tall figure standing amidst the crowded airport, with a repressed excitement in his aura. His deep eyes were fixed on the caller ID on the screen.

He didn’t know what he was thinking, hesitating to press the answer button.

"Ah Zhan, Momo is calling you, why aren’t you answering?"

Beside him, Tang Jinchen turned his head in confusion and looked up at him.

Ye Zhan’s body trembled slightly.

His thoughts were pulled back by Tang Jinchen’s voice. He closed his eyes for a moment, his long fingers slowly pressing the answer button. The voice that escaped his thin lips was low and hoarse, "Momo."

This single word "Momo" spilled out, filling Ye Zhan’s heart with a strong sense of bitterness and heartache.

Separated by the airwaves, he couldn’t see Momo’s expression, didn’t know where she was, what she was doing, or why she was calling him.

As a result, his heart hung quietly, afraid she would say something he didn’t want to hear.

Tang Jinchen frowned slightly, looking at Ye Zhan’s unconcealed tension. He also felt an indescribable discomfort in his heart.

In all the years he had known Ye Zhan, he had never seen him this nervous and uneasy.

There was a moment of silence on the phone.

The quiet was so complete that they could only hear each other’s faint breathing.

"Momo."

Ye Zhan waited a few seconds without hearing Momo speak, and softly called her name again, his voice even gentler and more hoarse than before, filled with a lifetime of deep affection.

"Are you at the airport?"

Momo’s voice finally came through.

Slightly, like the autumn wind, carrying a hint of tenderness, a bit of coolness, and a somewhat unreal ethereality that tightened one’s heart.

Ye Zhan tightened his grip on the phone ever so slightly.

The scene of seeing her in L City flashed before his eyes, and he replied, "Hmm."

He didn’t tell her he was going to G City.

Not knowing if Momo on the other end guessed he was coming to find her, he only heard her voice suddenly turn cold, "Ye Zhan, let’s break up."

"Momo!"

Ye Zhan urgently called her name.

"Listen to me first."

Momo interrupted him, her voice, in contrast to his urgent and complex tone, remained calm, as if she had retracted all the deep feelings she held for him, "Ye Zhan, that fear and panic that night, I don’t want to go through it a second time."

"Momo."

"I heard you’ve only been awake for two or three days, you shouldn’t be taxing your body like this, go back to the hospital and recover properly."

"But I miss you."

Ye Zhan’s hoarse voice spilled out from his heartache.

He missed her.

He didn’t need excessive words to embellish.

Nor did he need other sweet nothings.

Suddenly, the phone line went quiet again.

Ye Zhan couldn’t even hear Momo’s breathing.

He couldn’t see a thousand miles away the girl he loved tightly covering her mouth with one hand, letting tears roll down her cheeks.

His heart was sinking bit by bit in the silence.

Until her voice came again, distant and detached, "I have selfishly lived for myself once, I can’t continue to act willfully. Ye Zhan, if you can forget me, then forget me, don’t come looking for me."

"..."

"You don’t know, when I was just a few days old, I was kidnapped, my mom cried every day, and now more than twenty years have passed, the illness she got during her confinement still affects her health...if you can’t forget, you can hate me."

Ye Zhan’s eyes grew a little wet.

He wasn’t someone who struggled with words, but every word Momo said left him without words to rebut.

It was he who let her down.

He let down her parents, her family.

"Momo, let me see you once."

Tightly pursing his lips, Ye Zhan lightly said.

The determination in his tone was unquestionable.

He wanted to see her, in L City they hadn’t exchanged any words, and now he missed her like crazy.

"Ye Zhan, are you trying to make me feel hurt or sad?"

Her gentle words were like arrows piercing through the sky into his heart.

His breathing hitched sharply, and his grip on the phone tightened once more.

"Even if you come now, I won’t see you, if you must see me, or have something to say to me in person, then recover before you come. I said before, you are my hero, even if we break up, you still are."

Ye Zhan’s face gradually turned pale.

It felt like a pile of stones weighed on his chest, stopping him from breathing.

He didn’t know what to do to relieve this discomfort. He would rather Momo resent him, hate him, scold him, or cry and tell him about her fear those days...

But she didn’t.

None of it.

She was so calm, yet so kind.

He couldn’t even imagine what her feelings were that night when she agreed with his grandfather to save him using herself.

"Momo, I love you."

He didn’t know why he said that.

Involuntarily, he just said it.

Even knowing it would make Momo sad, he still said it.

"Forget me."

She said this, then hung up his phone.

Ye Zhan stared dazedly at the call log on the phone screen, his whole person like an ice block, motionless, exuding a constant chill.

Tang Jinchen waited for a long time, not seeing Ye Zhan take a step, or even speak.

He gritted his teeth, softly asking, "Ah Zhan, are you still going?"

He had been standing beside Ye Zhan during the call with Momo and had heard parts of it.

Momo wanted to break up with Ye Zhan.

Didn’t want Ye Zhan to go to G City.

She said he was her hero.

Even after the breakup, he still was.

"Ah Zhan, if you’re worried, I’ll contact you after I see Momo in G City, or take a few pictures to send to you. Your current physical condition really isn’t suitable for traveling to G City."

Ye Zhan slowly turned his face to look at Tang Jinchen.

Meeting Tang Jinchen’s concerned gaze, a bitter smile tugged at the corners of his mouth, "She said even if I went, she wouldn’t see me. Jinchen, I’ll just not go. If Momo doesn’t want to see you, or if her family doesn’t want you to see her, don’t force it, don’t make it difficult for her."

"Okay."

Tang Jinchen nodded lightly.

Ye Zhan lowered his gaze, lightly biting his lip as if pondering if there was anything else to instruct. After a second’s pause, he asked, "Gu Zhitong didn’t resent you, did she?"