Gone?
When Ji Jue received the news, he froze in shock, staring wide-eyed.
He almost suspected his own ears.
Yet looking back from the present, Wen Wen's resignation and departure seemed to have long since become inevitable. Whether it was her gloomy, violent drinking these past days, the mess Dream Loss Syndrome had caused a few days ago, or even the "family" who had come knocking—
With her personality, there was no way she could remain in Yacheng, casually ignoring all that and carrying on with her life.
The instant she realized she had become the source of trouble, she had already made her decision.
Ji Jue had sensed something when she came to drink with him, but he had never expected her to cut the Gordian knot so swiftly, without the slightest hesitation.
This decisiveness—this quality others might admire—was probably, for a hot-tempered Big Sister like Wen Wen, nothing more than her fists being hard enough and her patience having run out.
Like leaving without a word now.
Even though she knew Ji Jue could not possibly leave it alone, even though she understood this was no longer her business alone—"In the end, she was just putting on a brave face!"
Tong Hua, her eyes red-rimmed, could not help complaining, "She's such a grown-up, yet she acts like a child—she could have told me anything, but she didn't say a word.
"Has she watched too many tough-guy movies or something? She doesn't care at all what other people might think! It's too childish!"
"That's how people from the Waste Ruins are. Their tempers, you know. Maybe she'll come back once she's done what she needs to do. There's no need to act as if you've been separated by life and death."
Lao Zhang handed her tissues, soothing her as