The Agreement

Ji Aier didn't go to see Ji En off. She just stood in a corner of the airport, watching him. He was holding a boarding pass and a passport, looking around. She knew he was looking for her shadow. But in the end, he walked into the waiting room disappointed.All the people who should have come to see him off were there, but only Ji Aier was absent because she didn't want Ji En to see her in tears. He had once said that when she cried sadly, she looked like a widow. She didn't want that.The text message on her phone rang. Ji Aier saw the message from "husband": Aier, wait for me to come back!Was this Ji En's request to her or her promise to wait for Ji En? Ji Aier didn't reply because she knew that in a few years, Ji En might forget about her.Ji Aier didn't know how she walked out of the airport. Then she looked up at the plane flying overhead. This was a plane carrying all her beauty and love, but its direction was not towards her. Instead, it was flying away from her.Back at the Ji family mansion, without Ji En, the Ji family garden seemed empty. Ji Aier wasn't used to such a quiet life. For a rather long time, Ji En wouldn't be by her side, yelling at her, glaring at her, and calling her an idiot and an ugly duckling. This made it a bit hard for her to accept.Ji Aier returned to her room, not knowing what to do.In the evening, Madam Ji came to see her."Madam," Ji Aier opened the door to let her in. "You haven't gone to bed yet.""Ai'er, I want to talk to you about something." Madam Ji took Ji Aier's hand and sat down on the edge of the bed. For a moment, she almost had the illusion that this was her mother."Okay. Madam, please tell me what it is." Ji Aier said."Ai'er, you've been in our family for seven or eight years, right? Time flies so fast. In the blink of an eye, you've grown into a big girl." Madam Ji said. Although her tone was very gentle, Ji Aier had a sense of foreboding. "Your master and I have discussed and found a good university for you. You can go and register for the next semester. We've bought you an apartment near the school. In the future, you can live there directly. It'll be more convenient.""I understand what Madam means." Ji Aier lowered her head to hide the tears that were about to burst out. The Ji family no longer needed her. At the beginning, she was able to come to the Ji family entirely because of Ji En's stubbornness. And in the future, she had to leave the Ji family because Ji En had gone to the United States, and they could no longer tolerate her."You know, Ji En will marry the daughter of the Ouyang family in the future. You two have no future. As your elders, we don't want you to be wronged, so we've arranged this way. It's for your own good." Every word of Madam Ji was like a needle pricking Ji Aier's heart. She understood that this was her destiny.Ji Aier nodded. She was still grateful to the Ji family. She couldn't bite the hand that fed her. She could only blame her fate. Ji En was as lofty as a prince, while she was just a humble maid who could only bear it silently with her head down. The distance between her and Ji En was not only their backgrounds but also the insurmountable secular concepts.Madam Ji told Ji Aier their best arrangement for her: they had contacted a good domestic university for her, bought her an apartment near the school, and given her a considerable amount of money, with only one condition: never contact Ji En again. In fact, Ji Aier appreciated Madam Ji's kindness, but these were not what she needed. After seeing Madam Ji off, Ji Aier hid under the covers alone and let her tears flow freely. The only person who cared about her feelings was on a plane flying to the northern hemisphere at the moment. Besides that, no one cared that there was a tiny her in this world.