Chương 145: Respect Your Teacher

Gu Nianzhi bit her lower lip as she stared at the number on her phone screen—she had waited for this call for so long. She accepted the call with trembling fingers.

Her eyes were red, but she fought back the tears. She put the phone to her ear and waited.

She had been in America for more than a month, but Huo Shaoheng had not called her on the phone, not even once.

She had last stolen a peek at him through the video call with Zhao Liangze.

That was when she had seen him smile at another woman. It had made her angry and miserable, and driven her to vent her pent-up frustrations in a free-for-all with Xin Xinggao and the Indian softball women's team.

That was how she had ended up in her current mess…

Gu Nianzhi suddenly felt that the world had been terribly unfair to her.

Huo Shaoheng, who had raised her and backed her up whenever she needed him, was moving farther and farther away from her.

Was this the price of growing up?