It has been confirmed that Jien will go abroad next month, so the time they can be together is only this month left.
Since learning that he was going abroad, Jien no longer shouted at Ji Ai'er. The whole of him seemed dejected and listless, as if he didn't even have the strength to speak.
Ji Ai'er still followed Jien around all day long, just like his shadow.
Jien lay on the desk to sleep. It had been like this for several consecutive days. It seemed as if he was perpetually sleep-deprived. His slender figure curled up there looked a bit comical, but Ji Ai'er couldn't laugh. He seemed to have lost his former flamboyance and domineering. He was as helpless as a child who had lost his direction. Ji Ai'er recalled the scene when she was left in the orphanage as a child. At that time, apart from crying all day long, she didn't know what to do.
The teachers wouldn't interfere with what he did. So even if it was class time now and he was still sleeping, the teacher wouldn't wake him up. All the teachers and staff in this school knew his identity, so no one dared to manage him.
Only sometimes Ji Ai'er felt that this was actually a kind of misfortune. Because sometimes management represented a kind of love. There wasn't much difference between being unmanaged and unloved. Jien was always without anyone's management. Coupled with his powerful family background, that's why he was so rebellious and unruly.
And his parents, who didn't often come back, made decisions for him as soon as they returned. Every path of his was paved in advance. He had no choice at all. Except for her appearance, which was an exception.
Jien suddenly opened his eyes. Ji Ai'er hurriedly withdrew her gaze and only then realized that she had been absent-minded throughout this class. She hadn't listened to anything.
"Wait a moment. I'm skipping class." The note Jien threw to Ji Ai'er read.
The bell rang for the end of the class. Ji Ai'er put the books and stationery back into her schoolbag. Turning around, she saw that Jien was no longer in his seat. He must have gone downstairs, Ji Ai'er thought. So she quickly picked up her schoolbag and walked out of the classroom and downstairs.
But after going downstairs, she still didn't see him. Suddenly feeling panicked, she wondered where he had gone.
Ji Ai'er began to look for him in the corners of the school where he usually went, but still, there was no sign of him. Never before had she felt at this moment that a mobile phone was so important to her.
The school bell for class had rung. Everyone had returned to the classroom. Ji Ai'er couldn't borrow any phone to make a call. Finally, she had to borrow the phone from the guard to call Jien's mobile phone, but no one answered again and again. Ji Ai'er felt that her heart was about to stop beating. She didn't know what had happened to Jien.
"Ai'er!" Just when Ji Ai'er was on the verge of collapse, she heard Jien calling her name. Turning around, she saw him walking towards her. At that moment, tears began to flow wantonly. She cried and laughed...
"Why are you crying and laughing at the same time!" Standing beside Ji Ai'er, Jien saw her strange expression and asked disgustedly. He had resumed his former overbearingness.
"I thought where you had run off to." Ji Ai'er wiped her tears and said to Jien. Before that, she even thought that Jien had left for the United States just like that and left her behind.