The time and location matched. The three friends still came to this place as the text message had said.
Miaomiao was not far behind her friends. She watched the three of them enter a building one after another. Just as she was about to wait a while and then follow them in, her phone rang.
"Hello, what's up?"
It was still Li Erya calling. Didn't they make things clear last time? Why is she still pestering me?
Miaomiao was a bit annoyed. She had something important to do!
"Miaomiao, I'm sorry this call is bothering you. Although you told me these days that I don't need to pay back the money, I really feel uneasy keeping it. The main thing is that as long as this money is still in my hands, my parents will pester me every day. Our family's child is in the recuperation period now. They always come here making a big fuss. Your little niece can't recuperate well. So I've thought it over and over. I still have to give you the money so that everyone will calm down. I've already arrived in the imperial capital today. Now I'll go and give you the money. I'll take a taxi. It'll be quick. It won't take up much of your time. I've brought all cash. I'll leave as soon as I give you the money. Please, meet me. Can you give me your location now?"
Li Erya's voice faintly carried a sob. She sounded as if she had suffered a great deal of grievance. And such humble and submissive weakness was likely to soften Miaomiao, who was a person who yielded to kindness rather than force.
Miaomiao took a look at the building her friends had entered. Then she saw the coffee shop with a French window across the road. Then she replied, "Okay then. I'm at the Wuhuan Shuiyang Huacong now. There's a coffee shop called Meet Coffee here. I'll wait for you in the coffee shop."
"Okay. Wait for me a bit. I'm near the Fifth Ring Road. I'll be there in less than ten minutes."
Li Erya hung up the phone after saying that. Miaomiao stared at the building for a while, and then walked towards the coffee shop across the road.
If she just followed them in directly, even if her tracking skills were excellent, she would surely be noticed. It would be better to wait across the road. After her friends came out and Li Erya left after finding her, if her friends still hadn't appeared, she would go in to look for them.
After arriving at the coffee shop, Miaomiao casually ordered a sweet coffee and sat there in a daze by the window.
Meanwhile, Wei Ziqi and the other two, who had come to the building one after another, met up.
At first, they all went to Room 306 on the third floor, but it was empty. There was only a blackboard with the words "Go to the top floor" written on it.
The three of them entered the room at different times and only found out that they were all there when they reached the top floor.
"Why are you here?"
Cheng Ruan was extremely surprised. She thought she was the only one coming today.
"I was just about to ask you. Why are you here?" Yao Mingxuan also found it incredible. Clearly, they all had the same destination, but they still hadn't met.
"It seems you've all received the text message too." Wei Ziqi looked around. The top floor was filled with sundries. There was nothing else special, let alone any hints. It seemed the person who had called them here hadn't arrived yet.
"Yeah, but when I first received the text message, I had already gone to find Miaomiao. Although we had agreed to ignore this text message, later he told me that the murderer who stabbed Uncle Lin was still at large and that he knew who it was and would only tell me if I came here. So I came. I was afraid that Miaomiao would be impulsive or worried, so I didn't tell her either."
Cheng Ruan took out her phone and showed the subsequent text message she had received to Wei Ziqi and Yao Mingxuan.
Yao Mingxuan took a quick glance and then took out his own phone, showing it as well. "The text message I received is exactly the same as yours. But it's okay that you kept it from Miaomiao, but why did you even keep it from us? And you're a little girl. How come you have no sense of safety at all? Just because someone called you here, you came. What if it's a bad guy who has bad intentions towards you? You were kidnapped when you were a kid. How can you still be so careless when you've grown up?"
Yao Mingxuan said with a gloomy face and a bit of blame. They two big men were, after all, a bit better than Cheng Ruan, a young lady who never did any housework. Especially Wei Ziqi, whose intelligence was not something ordinary people could match. If they really encountered any danger, he could outsmart the other side with his brain.
"Come on, I'm not stupid. I've bought a lot of anti - wolf tools, like pepper spray and small electric shock batons. Look, I came here well - prepared. I didn't tell you because you two can't act. Last time when we were hiding the fact that Uncle Lin was in a coma, you insisted that I do it. So this time when I had to hide it from Miaomiao, I didn't tell you."
Cheng Ruan opened her schoolbag to show the preparations she had made before coming. There were also quite a few anti - wolf kits in her sleeves and pockets.
"You're quite smart to prepare in advance." Yao Mingxuan rolled his eyes and turned his head away. His tone was still a bit unhappy.
"The text messages you two received are this one. The one I received is different. Although I don't know what the person who sent us the text messages wants by gathering us here, when the person comes later, we mustn't believe a single bad word about Miaomiao."
Wei Ziqi gave his two friends a pep talk in advance. Since the other side had used Miaomiao's matter as bait to gather them together, they might not have good intentions towards Miaomiao. As long as they were united, no matter what the other side said, it wouldn't matter to them.
"Clap, clap, clap, clap..."
Suddenly, there came the sound of applause from behind. The three of them all turned around and saw two familiar people.
The two people in front of them were Shao Rong and Yin Chuan.
These two were their classmates. They saw each other every day, but they had never had any interaction either in class or after class. So it really surprised the three of them that these two could get together.
"Wow, what a touching friendship! I'm so envious of you. You actually have such a sincere and passionate relationship." Yin Chuan clapped his hands while speaking in a sarcastic tone.
Wei Ziqi frowned and stared closely at Yin Chuan. He seemed to have never really seen through this person.
"Don't look at me like that. You're all so curious. I'm here to answer your questions. I'm purely doing a good deed. Why are you still glaring at me?"
"Cut the crap. We're all here. You can tell us the purpose of gathering us here." Wei Ziqi snorted.
"Don't be so fierce. Otherwise, let me answer your question first. What was written on the note Rongrong slipped to you? Oh, right, it said, 'I will tell you what happened to Lin Miaomiao in her past life.' Actually, nothing special happened. It's a very simple sentence. She died, at the age of 18."