"Ah?" Xia Ningxing was startled, clearly not expecting him to leave again.
If it were any other time, it might have been okay, but right now, she was carrying his child and desperately needed his companionship.
Xia Ningxing instantly felt a dryness in her throat, as though a massive hand was tightly gripping it, and she managed to ask with difficulty, "Where to this time? For how long?"
"An island research institute, perhaps a year, maybe longer," Lu Tingli said with a bitter smile as he spoke.
If he could, he wouldn't want to go either, but the organization needed him, and there were times when resistance was not an option.
"It's okay, you go," Xia Ningxing understood his predicament and that he had to comply with the arrangements to contribute to Star Shine's development, so she smiled at him understandingly.
But the hand that was holding the newspaper had already crumpled it tightly, showing the sorrow and reluctance in her heart.
