"I'll do anything you want, but I need you to promise me one condition!" Ji Aier said to Ji En. She had to compromise first, otherwise, she wouldn't be able to carry out any of her plans.
"Let's hear it," Ji En said as he continued to eat his meal. The chef's cooking skills were excellent, he commented impartially.
"I need weekends off!" Ji Aier said because she had to be with Minze and Qianhe on weekends.
"What for?" Ji En turned to ask Ji Aier, his eyes so sharp that they seemed to penetrate her heart.
"I need to rest!" Ji Aier met his gaze and said bravely, pretending that she had no other motives. Otherwise, he would definitely investigate to the bottom.
"Okay," unexpectedly, Ji En readily agreed.
"Thank you!" Ji Aier said with a happy smile. Her expression made Ji En feel frustrated. Since he came back from abroad and found her, he hadn't seen her smile. She even lied to his face and said she mistook him for someone else. And now, she was so happy just because he agreed to give her weekends off.
"Starting from tomorrow noon, you need to bring me lunch at the company," Ji En said after wiping his mouth and putting the wet wipe aside.
"Sure," Ji Aier thought this wasn't a big deal.
"Keep your phone with you and keep it on 24 hours a day," Ji En added.
"No problem," this was also easy to do.
"I'll let you know if I think of anything else later," Ji En said and then stood up.
"No problem," of course, she hoped he wouldn't think of anything else, Ji Aier thought to herself.
Seeing that Ji Aier agreed so readily, Ji En had the feeling that he had been fooled.
Ji En went upstairs without saying anything, and Ji Aier took it as she didn't need to follow. So she turned and went for a walk in the back garden.
This was the first time she had been to the Ji family's back garden again after leaving for seven years. The air here was much better than in the house, and it also made her feel relaxed.
The large swimming pool in the back garden was shimmering with the moonlight at the moment. Ji Aier remembered when Ji En taught her how to swim here. She refused to get into the water no matter what. Because after the incident in the stream last time, she had started to be afraid of getting into the water. Water was something that could be admired from a distance but not played with. In the end, Ji En threw her into the water. She drank several mouthfuls of water and thought she was going to die. But what she thought would happen didn't occur because she was pulled out of the water, and she could breathe the fresh air above the water. At that moment, she felt how happy it was to be alive and breathe freely.
It was under such coercion that she learned breaststroke, butterfly stroke, and freestyle.
Ji Aier looked up at her room. Indeed, the cactus on the balcony was no longer there. She vaguely saw that the curtains on the balcony had been changed, but she couldn't see clearly what they had been changed into due to the insufficient light.