In the afternoon, Jiang Nuan completed the discharge procedures and returned to the Rose Garden to recover.
For a whole week, as if there was an agreent between them, Fu Yi didn’t contact her at all.
It was just as well that Jiang Nuan hadn’t decided how to face him yet. Since he didn’t call, she pretended that nothing had happened and began to imrse herself in work, receiving a lot of work docunts from colleagues at the overseas research institute every day, working late into the night.
Perhaps she was working too hard; even heaven was moved. A scholarly challenge she hadn’t overco in two years surprisingly had a breakthrough with a special solution within days.
While celebrating joyfully, colleagues at the institute began to ask when she would return.
"Susan, when are you coming back? We are all waiting for you."
Jiang Nuan looked at Kevin’s ssage in the group chat and remained silent for a long ti.
According to her agreent with Fu Yi, she was supposed to stay in the country for at least three more months, but now that agreent seed almost aningless. She wasn’t sure whether she should awkwardly continue to stay here adhering to it.
Nine days had passed seven days already.
The day after tomorrow, he would return.
Outside, the bright moon hung on the treetop, casting a sparse and clear light.
Jiang Nuan sat in the chair for a long, long ti, thinking a lot, then finally picked up her phone and sent a ssage to soone she hadn’t contacted for a long ti.
At the sa ti, under the sa moon in Hechuan County, a man with a composed expression left the dining table and told Yi Hengjian, "Excuse , I need to step out for a mont."
The disaster relief in Hechuan County had ended smoothly, and other leaders were present too. As a hero, his sudden departure made Yi Hengjian want to pull him back, but Fu Yi was already on his feet, so he could only lower his voice, "Co back soon, you know the occasion is different today, and you can’t be absent."
Fu Yi was in no mood to consider what he said, nodded perfunctorily, and quickly stepped out.
Once outside, the night breeze swept over him, clearing much of his intoxication, and he found a quiet spot to take out his phone, nervously opening the ssage.
It was a ssage from Jiang Nuan.
In the chat box lay a solitary sentence.
[Let’s void the previous agreent.]
Let’s void the previous agreent!
He held the phone, bitterness filled his eyes and brows. Even though he was ntally prepared for this, seeing her ssage caused his heart to involuntarily ache with a sharp pain.
He stared at the ssage for a long ti, but still couldn’t bear to let her wait too long. He lowered his head, lightly tapped the phone with his finger.
At the sa ti, Jiang Nuan’s phone on the table vibrated.
She picked it up, and there was a new ssage below in the chat box—[Okay].
...
One day later.
At Capital Airport terminal, Lemon gave her a reluctant hug, asking plaintively, "Can’t you stay? Do you really have to go abroad?"
Jiang Nuan couldn’t help but laugh, tapping her forehead, and teased, "I’m just going abroad, not dying. What are you afraid of? When I have ti, I’ll co back to see you, and when you have ti, you can co to for a vacation. We’ll be just like before."
Lemon knew by now that she couldn’t be stopped, and hesitated before speaking, "Have you really agreed on divorce with Director Fu?"
"He agreed." After a day of adjustnt, Jiang Nuan could now face this matter calmly, at least on the surface.
As for what she felt internally, she didn’t want to delve into it.
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