Gone?
When Ji Jue received the news, he was stunned, dumbfounded.
He almost doubted his own ears.
But looking back from the present, Wen Wen's resignation and departure seemed to have long since become inevitable—whether it was her recent bouts of morose, violent drinking, the mess Dream Loss Syndrome had caused a few days ago, or even those "family members" who had come knocking at her door...
With her personality, there was no way she could keep staying in Yacheng, acting as though none of it had happened and carrying on with her own life.
The instant she realized she had become the source of trouble, she had already made her choice.
Ji Jue had sensed it when she came to drink with him, but he had never expected it to happen so soon.
She had made the decision on the spot, without the slightest hesitation.
That decisiveness...
No, that quality others saw in her was probably just this for a hot-tempered Big Sister like Wen Wen: her fists were hard enough, and she could no longer endure it.
Just like this current farewell without a word.
Even knowing Ji Jue would never leave it alone, even understanding that this was no longer her problem alone...
"At the end of the day, she's just putting on a brave face!"
Tong Hua, her eyes red-rimmed, could not help complaining. "She's so grown up already, yet she acts like a child... She could have told me anything, but she didn't say a single word.
Did she watch too many tough-guy movies? She doesn't care at all what anyone else thinks! It's so childish."
"That's how the Waste Ruins are. Stubborn tempers. Maybe she'll come back once she's finished what she needs to do. No need to act like you've been separated by