"Cough, cough… I won't be coming home starting tomorrow. I'll be living somewhere else."
Zhang Manhua instantly widened her eyes in shock and exclaimed, "What?! You won't be coming home starting tomorrow and will be living somewhere else?!"
"Yes." She nodded solemnly.
Her mother clearly did not get what she meant.
"Wait, wait. Ge Ge, what do you mean by that?" Zhang Manhua gave her a look that said, 'I understand your words just fine, but when you put them together like that, I can't get their meaning for some reason.'
Why is my daughter not going to stay home? Where will she stay if not home?
"Mom, I mean that you have to live by yourself starting tomorrow." She patiently explained what she meant to her shocked mother.
Her explanation only made her mother more confused.
"You won't be staying at home; where will you be staying, then?"