367 The Intersection of Past and Present

"Pei Ziheng! I beg you, please, please, please!"

"Are you still not going to tell the truth? I'm going to hang up on 1. 3… 2…"

"Don't hang up! I'll say it! I'm Xia Ling, alright! I'm Xia Ling!" Her voice shouted out before her brain could process what she was saying. She then said in a low voice. "Pei Ziheng, please save him… I beg you to please save him…"

It was quiet on the other end of the line, but she could hear his heavy and steady breathing clearly.

"Pei Ziheng…" She pressed him.

"Just saying you're her is not enough." Pei Ziheng said very slowly like he was trying to control his emotions. "How are you going to prove you're Xia Ling? Xiao Ling, tell me something that was private between the two of us before. Tell me some things that no one else knows. Then I'll believe that you're really back."

"Pei Ziheng! How do you have the mood to hear about our past given the urgency of the situation?!"