The phone had always been switched off because Sun Qian had died sixteen years ago.
To prevent the number from being reassigned and because he couldn't bear the thought of it not going through, Xu Yizhi had arranged for the bill to be paid every month.
In the past, when things became unbearable, he would call this number, as if the man on the other end were still alive. He hadn't dialed it in many years.
Chapter 53