For quite a while, Tiana Williams spoke calmly, "I didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, I have been back this long."
"I thought you would stay in California."
Landon Brooke's deep voice also carried a sense of tranquility, his eyes as serene as the ocean were fixed on her.
Tiana Williams finished the wine in her glass with a tilt of her head, then slowly leaned back against the chair, turning her head to gaze out at the extravagant splendor outside, and spoke softly—
"Although memories here are not exactly pleasant, there is still a sense of sentiment involved. My roots are here. Going away was an adventure, but returning was inevitable."
As she said this, a faint glimmer shone in Tiana's starry eyes. Her gaze drifted upward, taking in the vast, boundless expanse of the starry sky where the infinite, uncharted future lay—a future unreachable and eternally mysterious to humanity.