Chapter 43: The Devil is coming.
Even she herself hadn’t realized. These words sounded too much like the concern shown before a parting.Deep down, she was also reluctant to part, even though this separation would last only a few short months at most.
Pei Zhen held the Blue Wind Chime, carefully inserting it into the vase. He pondered for a moment and then nodded his head.
"I do want to use it, just not to buy a villa."
Xu Si had guessed as much. "Then what do you want?"
"Hmm..." Pei Zhen straightened up, his gaze falling on her face, and said crisply, "After I leave, can Auntie come to pick me up a bit earlier?"
He disliked separations, even if they weren’t for long. But he vaguely felt it violated the promise he had made.
"Is that all?" Xu Si was slightly taken aback.
"Just that," Pei Zhen smiled.
He always possessed a unique and contradictory temperament. He seemed indifferent, wanting nothing, yet he was remarkably persistent in many areas—for instance, his studies and his frighteningly rigorous self-discipline.
Xu Si really wanted to understand what he desired, but she had never been able to truly grasp it. However, since it was just such a request, Xu Si nodded, agreeing quite readily.