Ji Ting frowned slightly and looked at him uncertainly. "Ji Yanzhi, was what you just said meant to be a sarcastic jab at me?"
Ji Yanzhi scoffed. "Would I dare? You can even travel through time and space. What right do I have to judge you?"
A chill pierced Ji Ting's entire body like fine needles. He curled his fingers, still keeping his emotions in check. "I understand that you're angry. You feel I've betrayed your feelings. But I didn't tell you because I didn't know how to."
Ji Yanzhi gave a bitter, mocking laugh. "You're so smart. Is there really anything you don't know?"
Ji Ting opened his mouth to explain, but Ji Yanzhi gave him no chance.
"You just said you understood me, didn't you?" His voice rose at the end, but a sorrowful plea lay hidden in his eyes. "Then tell me, ever since you bought this Laboratory Building, have you wavered for even a moment?"
"No."
Seeing that he hadn't even needed to think, Ji Yanzhi could no longer keep the redness from spreading through his dark eyes. "Then what about me? When you leave, have you ever thought of taking me with you?"
This time, Ji Ting hesitated. After a long silence, he said, "Ji Yanzhi, why would you come with me?
Just because you love me, could you abandon everything you have and follow me into a completely unfamiliar world?"
Having long considered this question, he shook his head. "That would be too unfair to you."
"Fair? You're talking to me about fairness?" Amid the anger in Ji Yanzhi's voice was an almost imperceptible tremor. "I thought we were already inseparable parts of each other. But while I was thinking that, what were you thinking? You were thinking about returning to your old world,