In Fangting City's Sunset Middle School, on the third floor of the main teaching building, Lin Xiaolu stared blankly at the ended call on her phone. After pausing for a few seconds, she let her arm fall and placed the phone down. She looked toward the window in the hallway, where a fine, continuous rain fell outside. In this incessant dreary weather, her mood had sunk a bit as well.
Perhaps "sunk" wasn't quite the right word—what she felt was more like a sense of loss.
The Emerald Sparrow had told her "no need to come," which surely was well-intentioned. She didn't want Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang to be in danger, nor did she want them to miss the important parents' meeting. The consideration within that message was clear to anyone, wasn't it?
Yet, even if the Emerald Sparrow had no ulterior motives, her words could be interpreted in another way. The "no need to come" might as well mean "your coming would be useless."
