So Lu Ming and Yue Feng couldn't really return to their country without spending a year or two here.
Moreover, the President of F Country didn't fully trust them, so they were prohibited from any communication with the outside world.
Even though they were treated with the utmost hospitality, they had almost no freedom.
If Jing Yiren had known that it would be eight months before Lu Ming's next phone call, she might have chosen to answer it.
Eight months later.
Lu Ming had been absent from Jing Yiren's world for a full ten months.
Another year had passed in Z Country.
Summer, July.
Jing Yiren had just started her summer vacation, and she had made up all the classes she missed at school.
When she returned to school last September, the principal even invited her for a meal personally and took exceptional care of her, as if she were family.
It was then that Jing Yiren found out that the Lu Corporation had already invested in a school project during the summer holiday.