Xie Chen had not slept all night. He hacked into the airline system and looked up passenger information.
When he saw the name "Huo Wenye," he finally relaxed, though a trace of emptiness rose within him.
He really left?
Would they meet again?
Fuck.
Would he ever get the chance to pay him back for what he had suffered on that last night?!
Cursing under his breath, Xie Chen shut his laptop and lay back down, intending to catch up on sleep.
But the moment he closed his eyes, Huo Wenye's annoying face appeared right before him, asking over and over,
"Can you really bear to leave me?! Can you really bear to?!"
"Fuck!" Xie Chen cursed. "What, was I supposed to keep you here to die with me?!"
The moment he finished speaking, someone knocked on the door. "Professor Smith, are you in there?"
Xie Chen rolled over. "No!"
"You can talk even when you're not there? Is that an automated recording?" Sophie muttered outside. "Then who am I supposed to give the materials Professor Smith asked me to prepare?"
Just as she rose onto her toes to leave, the dorm room door suddenly opened. "Give me the materials!"
Sophie turned around with a grin, hiding the document bag behind her back as she poked her head inside. "Professor Smith, are you hiding a beauty in here?! Is it that person you had a one-night stand with?!"
Xie Chen kept a straight face. "If you keep spouting nonsense, I'll expose the fact that you're the principal's daughter and see how you keep teaching at Harvard."
"Hmph!" Sophie pretended to be angry and tossed the documents to Xie Chen. "Professor Smith, you really have no sense of humor!"
She turned and left. Xie Chen did not stop her. Once he