After going up to her room, Jia Li had realised that her phone was probably left behind in the car. She had come down the steps, only to halt mid-way, listening to the raised voices. She hadn't wanted to intrude and turned around to go back upstairs. But Wei's words had shocked her into standing still. He wanted to move out of his house because of her?
Post the unexpected intimacy in the car this afternoon, Jia Li's heart had urged her to look beyond her misery and maybe think of a new start somewhere in the future. She wasn't ready for love but she did want to try moving on from the spot she had been standing at for many years now. But she wasn't going to start afresh with someone at the cost of a mother's angst. Listening to Mrs. Wang plead just now with her son, Jia Li felt really guilty. She didn't wait to hear more and climbed up the stairs.
