Deliberately Approaching
Chapter 176 Virtual Phone

Chapter 176: Chapter 176 Virtual Phone

At 7 a.m., Jinyuan Academy.

Tang Xiaowan, in a dazed state, heard the ringing of her cell phone.

She yawned one after another.

Luckily, the phone wasn’t far away, just beside her pillow.

Last night, Li Zishen and she had talked for a long time about going to Li Garden today to tidy up the sunroom, so she didn’t go to sleep until after midnight.

Tang Xiaowan didn’t want to go, but she had personally sown some seeds there, some were vegetable seeds and others were saplings, growing so fast they were already poking through the soil.

Li Zishen was afraid that Tang Xiaowan would refuse, so he had used this approach to pique her interest.

At this time, the ringing continued.

To answer or not to answer was a split-second decision, and Tang Xiaowan ultimately chose to keep her promise.

"Hey, rushing me first thing in the morning!"

Tang Xiaowan, with her eyes still closed, fumbled around beside her pillow and then pressed the answer button.

The white phone was originally a gift from Li Zishen. It was rarely contacted by others, and it wouldn’t be over the top to call it his direct line.

It only had five numbers stored.

Li Zishen, Li Zihan, Chen Yu, the school counselor, and the bodyguard Cheng Shi.

Out of these five contacts, only Li Zishen called her daily; the other four were specifically added by Tang Xiaowan to throw people off her trail.

Her real go-to phone was the black one given to her by Leng Lingxiao.

People from Mei Garden also used that one to contact her, and it was used frequently, several times a day.

Why the difference in treatment?

It stemmed from Li Zishen installing a tracker and a listening device in the black phone under the guise of protecting Tang Xiaowan.

Men and women think differently.

He thought that by doing this, he was showing care and offering protection, but to Tang Xiaowan, it felt like surveillance and ill-intentions.

"Hello, what is it?"

This was clearly a rhetorical question, hence her tone was indifferent, her voice soft.

However, there was no response.

"Speak up, why’d you call?"

Tang Xiaowan was getting impatient now; she picked up the phone from the pillow, preparing to give a fierce scolding, but she was stunned when she saw the screen.

The call wasn’t from Li Zishen; the caller ID wasn’t "Old Fox," but a string of random numbers, displaying a virtual operator.

"What’s this, a wrong number?" Tang Xiaowan muttered to herself.

"What time is it, and you’re still sleeping in?"

A strange voice came through the phone, a processed electronic sound, which baffled Tang Xiaowan, instantly waking her up.

Are they really just messing around like teenagers?

That was her first reaction, suspecting it was Li Zishen playing a prank.

So, Tang Xiaowan stuck out her tongue at the phone, preparing to give him an earful, but the electronic voice sounded again.

"Why aren’t you talking, don’t remember me?"

Tang Xiaowan: "..."

It’s not him, not Zishen!

A telemarketer trying to sell stuff, phone number leaked, pretending to be familiar?

That was Tang Xiaowan’s second reaction.

"Who are you, why alter your real voice?"

"A girl getting all fired up like that isn’t good; men prefer gentleness."

This statement hit Tang Xiaowan right where it hurt, making her want to rush over to the other end of the line and beat up this ambiguous person, then kick them a couple of times.

She was never a delicate lady, naturally lacking the temper for it.

"Not speaking, hit the nail on the head?"

After a brief pause, Tang Xiaowan suddenly sat up and shouted into the phone, "Who exactly are you, if you dare, give me your name, what does my being gentle or not have to do with you?"

"You could call me Uncle, or Big Brother works too, I don’t mind."

"Are you..."

Before she could finish, the call abruptly ended, giving Tang Xiaowan the sensation of being teased and leaving her without the chance to talk back or curse at the other person.

The frustration was unbearably uncomfortable!

"First thing in the morning, are you sick!"

"Using electronic voices like some villain, afraid I’ll..." Tang Xiaowan paused, checking her phone again.

"Think a virtual number is mighty?"

Knowing full well that such calls usually wouldn’t connect, she still pressed the callback button.

Once, twice, three times...

It wasn’t until the sixth try that Tang Xiaowan gave up.

The anger hadn’t yet subsided, and just as she was about to get off the bed and grab some yogurt, the phone suddenly rang again.