Winter break.
Yining Mu discussed New Year's plans with Ji Heng at Shanhai Apartment, hoping Ji Heng would stay in Jiangjing for the celebration this year.
Ji Heng squinted her eyes and slowly embroidered, shaking her head, "No."
Yining had anticipated this response, yet she proposed, "Then let's return on the third day of the New Year."
Last year she and Mu Zhao had gone back to Xiangcheng to celebrate the New Year, so naturally, she planned to return this year too.
"The third day of the New Year?" Ji Heng squinted, dropping a stitch, "I might not be in Xiangcheng after the New Year."
As they spoke, Bai Lian returned outside.
Yining put down her cup and stood up upon seeing the two guards following behind Bai Lian, clearly just coming from the laboratory.
The guards were in plain clothes, but their demeanor was markedly different from that of ordinary people.
Over two decades ago, Yining had seen this type of guard behind some of the elders in the Mu Family.