My Online Lover Is the Rival I Fired novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: Quiet Whale
The roof of the Hexin tower was a flat black deck with a painted circle on it for helicopters and a low wall.
The whole of Shanghai lay below in gold.
Mo Chenyao sat on the wall with his back to the drop and his shoes on the ledge, and shook.
He had been shaking since the lift.
It was not cold.
His hands, when he held them out, would not stay still, and his throat felt scraped.
In his head three hundred people were still clapping.
A man had bowed to him.
A man who had never apologised to anyone in his life had bowed so low that the back of his neck showed.
He had held it, and cried in front of a banquet hall.
Mo had walked away, because if he had stayed another second he would have put his arms round him in front of everyone.
He took out his phone.
There was only one person he wanted to tell.
He opened the lighthouse, and the bottle-post, and the small blue window where a stranger had waited for him every night for fourteen months.
He typed fast, with his thumbs clumsy.
"whale. something happened tonight and I need you. a man stood up in front of three hundred people."
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