"Because you just had a bad temper, that was all."
Ji Yanzhi still couldn't understand. "You didn't know me back then. Weren't you afraid I was bad on the inside too?"
At the question, Ji Ting's lips curved faintly. "The harshest punishment you could think of was locking me up for extra lessons. How bad could you possibly be?"
Ji Yanzhi suddenly found himself at a loss for words, but putting himself in Ji Ting's shoes, he said, "If I were you, I probably wouldn't have lasted even a day."
"Actually, I wanted to leave the Ji Family at first too. But then I suddenly discovered that I could sense your emotions and gradually understand your sarcasm, so I decided to stay."
Ji Yanzhi paused slightly, picking up on the crucial point. "Only... me?"
"Yes." Ji Ting nodded. "I told you before that I have Asperger Syndrome. Its most obvious characteristics are difficulties with social interaction and communication. Your appearance was like a window suddenly opening for me, so I wanted to study you."
Ji Yanzhi's feelings were incredibly complicated. He didn't know whether to feel happy or fortunate. Thank goodness his past self had held some experimental value for Ji Ear, or the two of them might have become strangers long ago.
He squeezed Ji Ting's hand. "Have you ever considered that this might have been fate?"
"What might have been fate?"
"That we were made for each other."
Ji Ting felt a little like laughing, but mostly he felt helpless. "Then how would you prove it? Or convince me with factual evidence that this mystical force really exists?"
"You traveled through time. Isn't that mystical enough?"
"There's a scientific basis for traveling through spacetime too. Although humanity is still at the stage of a planetary civilization, once we