I wish I could sleep and wake up to find that nothing had happened, Tong Jun carefully concealed everything, acting as if nothing was wrong, disguising all his unease.

  During the day, Bai Yang would drive her to school and she would attend classes obediently. After school, if Bai Yang came to pick her up, she would ride in his car back to their apartment. If he didn't come to pick her up, she would take a few stops on the bus back to the apartment and then stay home playing with Xiao Teddy (Xiao Teddy was brought by Bai Yang from Beijing for her sister). Or if Bai Yang wanted to take her to meet friends, she would accompany him, but every time they met up, she never saw Yang Pu again.

  Halfway through class, Tong Jing received a text message from Bo Yang: "Can I skip class now? I'm at your school gate."

  Tong Jun smiled and passed by, adding a line of words 'I've never skipped class, or else you come over and listen to my class'

  Soon, Bai Yang replied, 'Today is Yang Pu's farewell party, he will go to the United States for school the day after tomorrow.'

  Tong Jing stared at the words on her phone screen for a moment, then pressed down a string of characters after a long time. "I know, so I'll skip class now."

  She swept the textbooks on the table into her bag, stood up, and ignoring everyone's gaze, quickly ran out.

  "That classmate, you——"

  Behind her was the teacher's roar, but Tong Jun had already not heard the second half of the sentence, until she ran out of the teaching building, and only then did she calm down, gradually slowing down her pace, walking to the school gate.

  "Get in," - Bai Yang bent over and opened the passenger door from inside the car.

  Tong Xuan got out of the car and sat down, casually closing the door behind him.

  Bo Yang helped her fasten her seatbelt and then started the car, heading to their agreed destination - a villa in the suburbs owned by the Yang family.

  "What's wrong with Yang Pu saying go to America and just going?" Tong Jing asked in a low voice, fiddling with her fingernails.

  Bo Yang took a look at Tong Jing's expression, but found that she was completely expressionless. So he opened his mouth and said, "Well, after returning from Hangzhou, he applied for the exchange student quota and now only three quotas have been approved, one of which is him."

  "Oh." Tong Jun forced a smile and nodded slightly.

  Bo Yang had never told Tong Jun that Yang Pu was going to the United States. He didn't deny having his own motives, and he didn't want to mention Yang Pu in front of Tong Jun because he knew clearly that Yang Pu suddenly applied for an exchange student quota because of Tong Jun.

  What exactly happened in Hangzhou that time, Yang Pu didn't say, Tong Jun never mentioned it voluntarily, and Bai Yang didn't ask again. In fact, no matter what happened, Bai Yang was willing to choose to believe them, these two were the people he cherished most. Now one of them is about to leave, do they still need to blame anything? No need, completely no need.

  The car drove into the villa's gate and slowly came to a stop, with all sorts of luxury cars already parked there. It seemed that everyone who was supposed to come had arrived.

  Bo Yang led Tong Jing in, inside were Pu Wanwan, Su Yiran and a crowd of friends, all familiar faces.

  "Bo Yang, I'm saying why are you always the last one..." Pu Wanwan said, moving to the left and making room for two people.

  "Beijing traffic jam, you're not unaware of it." Bai Yang took off his shoes and scanned the room, "By the way, where's the person from Yangpu?"

  "He's busy in the kitchen, he said tonight's dinner will be all his doing -" Su Yiran glanced into the kitchen, her tone somewhat melancholic.

  Bo Yang nodded and pressed Tong Jing onto the sand, then walked straight into the kitchen.

  "Do you need help?" Bai Yang leaned against the door, watching Yang Pu busy back and forth, couldn't help but laugh out loud. Growing up together since childhood, it was the first time seeing Yang Pu wear an apron and cook personally.

  Yangpu turned his head and looked back, wiping the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, smiled, "No need, almost done, just this fish left——"

  "Hmm, I didn't expect you to be so skilled. How come I never knew you could cook before?" - Bai Yang still walked over and helped cut the ginger shreds.

  "I'm just messing around according to the cookbook, anyway I'll be going to America and will have to learn how to cook for myself, might as well practice today. Those American foods are not something I can get used to!" Yang Pu said while washing the fish belly, shrugging his shoulders in frustration.

  "If you can't get used to eating it, why go there!" Bai Yang lowered his head and seriously cut the ginger shreds, asking casually.

  "Ordinarily, I wouldn't go to school at all, but it's Princeton University, after all. Such a great opportunity, how could I let it slip away?" He said this with his mouth, but only he knew in his heart that he was doing this just to make himself forget Tong Jun.

  Bai Yang didn't say a word, he finished cutting the ginger shreds and went to cut the chili peppers. He understood everything Yang Pu said, and the more relaxed this iron brother seemed, the heavier his heart was. Why did he have to fall in love with Tong Jing?

  After finishing the last dish of fish, all the dishes were ready. "Dinner is served, dinner is served --" Yang Pu took off his apron and called out to the children to come and eat.

  Pu Wanwan has opened all the bottles of beer. "Tonight, let's have a wild time and promise not to leave until we're drunk!"

  Yang Pu shook his head slightly and raised his eyes to see Tong Jing staring at him. He didn't move his gaze away, but instead returned a calm smile.

  Tong Jing didn't smile, nor did she speak. She continued to look at him for another ten seconds before shifting her gaze away. It was only then that she realized Yang Pu's last glance in the hospital room was a farewell to her. She had never understood it until now. At this moment, as she looked at him, she didn't even have the courage to say sorry.

  Yangpu's dishes, to be honest, are just so-so, barely edible, but everyone politely says they're delicious. The boys at the table were having a drinking contest, and everyone was chatting freely, from silly things when they were young to interesting things during their growth, and then talking about what they wanted to do after graduation.

  "How many years does Yangpu plan to go to the United States?" someone asked.

  "Spending a year and a half as an exchange student, graduating with a bachelor's degree, I'll at least need to get a master's degree back home, that's another two years, so it'll be four years before I return——” Yang Pu had been smiling from the start, a very shallow smile, his face slightly dark, maybe he was drunk, or maybe not.

  "Na Baiyang, you're graduating in a year, what are you planning to do?"

  He put down his wine glass, "Me? Ha! My dream is to enter the world's top architectural design firm and then build an unparalleled building I designed in Beijing, becoming a new landmark of Beijing. Later when my kids grow up, I can proudly tell them, 'Look, that's the classic building your dad designed, how cool is that?!'"

  Tong Jing pursed her lips and smiled, looking at Bai Yang's intoxicated appearance, she had a kind of admiration in her heart. She knew that Bai Yang was indeed domineering, just like Conan who would make people die wherever he went with his domineering aura!