Unknowingly, Ji Ai'er had strolled in the back garden until it was quite late at night. She went upstairs directly, not to Jien's room but to open the door of her former bedroom, but it was locked.
She felt a little uncomfortable because she had never locked the door before. And now this place seemed not to belong to her anymore. So even if it was locked, she didn't have the key to open it.
Ji Ai'er went downstairs to look for the butler and wanted the key to the room to open the locked door. Otherwise, she wouldn't know where she should sleep tonight at all!
"That room is already Miss Ouyang's room." The butler said to Ji Ai'er. "She comes here to stay for a few days every year. She specifically asked for the room you used to live in."
"Oh!" Ji Ai'er felt a dizzy feeling. All the unease and embarrassment emerged at this moment. Apart from this simple syllable, she couldn't make any sound.
Ji Ai'er walked away from the side building of the Ji family garden. This was where all the servants lived, including Sister Li and driver Lao Li, etc.
She stood at the entrance of the main building. It was neither appropriate to enter nor to retreat.
"Where did you go?"
Ji Ai'er heard Jien's indifferent voice. She raised her head, with tears about to burst out of her eyes. But she tried her best not to let the tears fall.
"Don't cry in the future!" For a moment, Jien had forgiven this person whom he had been looking for for a full seven years. When he saw her aggrieved look, he wanted to hold her in his arms. But in the end, he only said such a sentence. He was already used to being cold-blooded and indifferent.
"I'm not crying!" Ji Ai'er finally restrained the tears that were about to burst out. She had become strong in these seven years.
"Idiot!" Jien said the word he often used to scold Ji Ai'er before.
"I'm not an idiot!" Ji Ai'er suddenly said excitedly. Why did he always treat her like this? She could have lived a very peaceful life. Why did he appear in front of her?
"If you weren't an idiot, you wouldn't have run away from home." Jien said disdainfully, still brooding over her disappearance.
"This isn't my home!" If it were her home, she wouldn't have left the Ji family in a way almost like being kicked out.
"Wherever I am, that's your home. Don't forget your surname!" Jien shouted angrily at Ji Ai'er.
"You are a devil!" Ji Ai'er said mournfully. She felt that she was about to collapse. But before she fainted, she thought of her two children.