"Should I be glad that you still remember me?"

His voice was tainted with grievances and made Sheng Jiaoyang feel goosebumps all over.

"When you left the country that day, I did call back, but your phone was already off,” Sheng Jiaoyang explained.

"And after that?"

"After that…I was busy after that, wasn't I? Busy with the advertisement shoot in the day, and knocked out immediately when I returned to the hotel at night."

"Excuses."

You already know that, so why do you have to say it out loud?! Sheng Jiaoyang’s lips twitched.

"I heard from Grandpa that Grandfather Shen is fine now, right?" She quickly diverted the topic.

"Yeah."

"Then, when are you coming back?" Sheng Jiaoyang asked casually.

There was silence on the line before his voice, full of joy, asked, "Do you miss me?"

Sheng Jiaoyang parted her lips. Initially, she’d planned on telling him that it was a passing question, but she swallowed her words just as she was about to say them and admitted, "Yeah, I miss you. I called you as soon as I got back.”

Anyway, saying "miss you" won't cost me anything. It's better to make the Demon King happy, lest he settles the score with me once he comes...