"You can ask me to do anything. I just want you to promise me one condition!" Ji Ai'er said to Jien. She had to compromise first, otherwise none of her ideas could be implemented.
"Let's hear it." Jien continued eating his meal. The chef's craftsmanship was very good. He evaluated objectively.
"I need weekends off!" Ji Ai'er said. Because on weekends, she had to be with Minze and Qianhe.
"What for?" Jien turned to ask Ji Ai'er. His eyes were so sharp as if they were going to penetrate her heart.
"I need to rest!" Ji Ai'er met his gaze and said bravely, looking as if she had no other purpose. Otherwise, he would definitely investigate to the end.
"OK." Unexpectedly, Jien agreed readily.
"Thank you!" Ji Ai'er said happily with a smile. Her expression made Jien suddenly feel depressed. When he returned to the country and found her, he hadn't seen her smile. She even blatantly lied to him, saying that she mistook him for someone else. But now that he agreed to give her weekends off, she was so happy.
"Starting from tomorrow noon, you need to deliver lunch boxes to me at the company." Jien wiped his mouth, put the wet towel aside and said.
"OK." Ji Ai'er thought this was not a big problem.
"Carry your phone with you and keep it on 24 hours a day." Jien said again.
"No problem." This was also easy to handle.
"I'll tell you if I think of anything else." Jien finished speaking and stood up.
"No problem." Of course, it would be best if he didn't think of anything. Ji Ai'er thought.
Seeing Ji Ai'er agree so readily, Jien had a feeling that he was fooled.
Jien went upstairs without saying anything. Ji Ai'er took it as she didn't need to follow. So she turned and went to the back garden for a walk.
This was the first time she came to the back garden of the Ji family again after leaving for seven years. The air here was much better than in the house, and it also made her feel relaxed.
The huge swimming pool in the back garden was now glistening in the moonlight. Ji Ai'er remembered when Jien taught her to swim here before. She refused to go into the water no matter what. Because since the incident in the creek last time, she began to be afraid of going into the water. Water could be admired from afar but not played with. In the end, Jien threw her into the water. She drank several mouthfuls in a row and felt like she was going to die. But what she thought didn't happen because she had been pulled up. She could breathe the fresh air on the water surface. At that moment, she felt how happy it was to be alive and breathe freely.
It was in such coercion that she learned breaststroke, butterfly stroke, and freestyle.
Ji Ai'er raised her head and looked at her room. There was indeed no cactus on the balcony. She vaguely saw that the curtains on the balcony had been changed, but she couldn't see clearly what they were changed to due to insufficient light.