Arvin was a little shocked by her words. He removed himself from on top of her and said, "Sleep tight. I will go take a bath first."
'Is he angry?'
Covering her chest, Angela felt... quite distressed.
Rosa Yin, this woman, was like a thorn piercing through her heart.
Arvin entered the bathroom. Lying in bed, Angela felt more and more angry at the thought of what had happened tonight. This was probably the worst birthday she had ever had.
She took out her phone, and when she switched it on, she saw a display of words, with a bunch of roses around them. It wrote, "Angela, happy birthday to you!"
'What? Where did this come from? What's this app? Why don't I know about it?' wondered Angela.
As she touched the screen, her name suddenly exploded like fireworks. Then, a couple of seconds later, the picture on her phone screen changed.
From the middle to the sides, clusters of roses appeared one by one. In the end, they were assembled into a sentence again, "Angela, happy birthday to you!"
She clicked on the screen again, and it turned into another sentence, "Lovely Angela, happy birthday to you! Your present will be delivered to the hospital tomorrow. Remember to receive it!"
Then, on the bottom corner, Angela saw the signature, "Fabian Li."
... It meant that Fabian had hacked her phone's operating system to have it display all these things.
She happened to touch the screen, so the whole process replayed again.
Even with her back against the bathroom, Angela suddenly felt a cold chill behind her.
She immediately turned around and found Arvin staring deeply at her phone screen. He saw the roses and the words 'Lovely Angela...'
It was already too late when Angela came back to her senses and switched the phone off. Arvin had already seen everything clearly.
She opened her mouth, as if she wanted to explain herself. But when she remembered what had happened earlier tonight between Arvin and Rosa, she closed her mouth and kept silent.
Arvin seemed to be waiting for her explanation. He stood at the bedside for a few moments, but he didn't hear any words from her mouth.
All of a sudden, the atmosphere between them turned tense.
Eventually, wearing a dark face, Arvin changed into his night robe and left the bedroom.
As soon as he left, Angela gnawed heavily on her lower lip. Her eyes became red.
Angela felt so sad. Today was her birthday. He didn't even try to coax her but just left.
'Where is he going? He is in a night robe. Is he going to sleep in the guest room tonight?
Or... he just doesn't want to sleep with me tonight?' Angela thought to herself gloomily.
In the study
Contemplating the night scene outside the window, Arvin called Kent. "How is the investigation going?" asked he.
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