As Su Li admired the beautiful mountain scenery, her phone suddenly rang. The crisp, clear ringtone sounded strikingly abrupt in the quiet of the mountaintop. She pulled the phone from her pocket and saw that it was Tan Ai calling.
Her heart began to race. She gripped the phone tightly, lacking the courage to answer. A thousand possibilities flashed through her mind—she had left to find a Chinese medicine practitioner, but had failed. If something had happened to her father, how could she ever face it? She dared not imagine the consequences, her heart heavy with guilt and fear.
Su Li stood there frozen, the phone continuing to ring. Sensing her distress, Shen Ye walked over and asked softly, "What is it? Whose call is it?"
Chapter 117