Fu Zhi already had Ye Jiu, and she could not take him in like she had when she was a child.
'It's fine,' Ye Qi told himself. He wasn't really upset after all.
*
The street was filled with pedestrians by the time they came out of the coffee shop at 8:00 p.m.
The wind was freezing, and Ye Qi wrapped his scarf around Fu Zhi's neck.
The waitress in the coffee shop looked on longingly as Ye Qi slowly disappeared from her line of vision.
Ye Qi was walking slowly ahead. Fu Zhi seemed to feel something, but she could not tell what kind of feeling that was.
She took a few quick steps to catch up to Ye Qi and asked, "When are you going back to Country M?"
"Maybe tonight? Maybe tomorrow? I'm not sure either."
"Then when are you coming back?"
Ye Qi came to an abrupt stop when he heard this question. He pressed his lips firmly and replied, "I'm not coming back again."
