As soon as Xia Zhaoning and Ji Mingchi met, Ji Mingchi signaled Xia Zhaoning not to speak, reached out and took her hand, quietly bypassed the surveillance personnel, and left the dormitory building for international students.

After walking along two dark alleys, we finally arrived at Ji Mingchi's temporary residence.

Ji Mingchi let Xia Zhaoning enter first. He checked around to make sure no one was following them.

The dry food and supplies prepared in advance have been placed in the car.

"Zhao Ning, the two of us are going to drive to Country F and fly back to China from Country F. Someone has already bought our tickets there, and they're for five days later."

"It takes about 10 hours to drive from here to Country F, but we can't rule out any unexpected situations along the way, and driving speeds are slower at night."

"We will prepare in twelve hours. After we arrive in Country F, we will have a temporary place to stay there," said Ji Mingchi.

Xia Zhaoning nodded and said, "Thank you, Comrade Ji."

"You're welcome. We're outside now, so you should just call me by my name. It's more intimate that way." Ji Mingchi said with a smile.

Xia Zhaoning nodded, "Am I the only one with you?"

"I originally wanted to arrange a few more people to come, but I was afraid that too many people would make us conspicuous and attract the other party's attention, so I came alone."

Xia Zhaoning didn't ask any more questions and got into the car with Ji Mingchi.

Ji Mingchi checked again to make sure that everything was ready, and the two drove away.

They did not turn on the headlights when they were in the city, and slowly drove out of the city using the city street lights.

After leaving the city, Ji Mingchi turned on the headlights and sped towards their destination.

The next morning, Eric arrived at the international students' dormitory early in the morning.

He received a task from his family to pursue a Chinese girl, marry her home, and keep her working in their family business.

It is said that this is a talented girl who has absolute inspiration in mechanics. Such a person is hard to come by.

Eric is a young talent in the family. Although he has not yet reached the stage of taking over the family business, he has some understanding of family affairs.

In recent years, the conflict of interests between their family and another big family has become increasingly serious.

Although their technology is far ahead of China's, the more conflicts there are between them, the more serious the damage to their interests will be.

In order to stay ahead of the competition, they are willing to spend a lot of money to retain high-quality international students who come here to study.

Xia Zhaoning is undoubtedly the best among the international students they have chosen.

For a playboy, pursuing a girl seems very simple.

Unexpectedly, Xia Zhaoning did not play by the rules at all and rejected him decisively.

But Eric was not discouraged. He felt that as long as he persisted, he would be able to make the girl fall in love with him.

After all, he is rich and handsome.

But today, for some reason, he felt a little nervous when he arrived downstairs of the dormitory building, and he waited and waited but didn't see Xia Zhaoning.

This wasn't Xia Zhaoning's style. Every day she was the first one to leave the dormitory to study in the library...

Eric turned around before he saw someone coming down the stairs. He immediately went up to them and asked, "Have you seen Ning? I came early but didn't see her."

"Zhao Ning? We didn't see her either. We all had dinner and drinks together last night, and then we all fell asleep. When we woke up in the morning, we thought she was gone."

Eric realized something was wrong and hurried to Xia Zhaoning's dormitory.

He knocked on the door and the senior sister who lived in the same room with Xia Zhaoning opened the door.

"I'm looking for Ning." Eric pushed his senior sister aside and entered the room.

"It's very rude of you to break into the girls' dormitory without permission." The senior sister said dissatisfiedly.

Eric walked in and checked carefully, and only then did he feel relieved when he confirmed that all of Xia Zhaoning's things were there.

Could it be that Ning got up early today and went to the library early?

Was she gone when he arrived?

Eric immediately apologized to his senior sister.

"I'm sorry, I waited downstairs for a long time but didn't see Ning. I was a little anxious, so I came up."

The senior sister looked at Eric with dissatisfaction, "It is despicable to casually break into the girls' dormitory."

Eric apologized repeatedly and promised that he would never do it again.

The senior sister waved her hand and asked him to leave.

After Eric left the dormitory building, he immediately went to the library and looked around, but still didn't see Xia Zhaoning.

He went to the cafeteria again but still couldn't find Xia Zhaoning.

Eric's eyelids twitched; it was soon time for class.

Eric thought he would definitely see Xia Zhaoning in the classroom, but he didn't.

Eric was restless throughout the entire class, and after the first get out of class, he immediately contacted the person who had been responsible for monitoring downstairs in the dormitory.

Ask him if he saw Xia Zhaoning leave.

The man said no, he didn’t see Xia Zhaoning come out this morning.

Xia Zhaoning is not in the dormitory again...

They finally realized that Xia Zhaoning was missing.

Eric ran to the dormitory again. As soon as he arrived, he saw people from the Study Abroad Office packing Xia Zhaoning's things.

"Where is Xia Zhaoning?" Eric asked.

"Classmate Xia had something to do at home, so she returned home early. We received his application and came here to help him pack his things."

"When did she leave? She was clearly here last night! We didn't see her leave." Eric said.

"Student, what is your name? Are you monitoring classmate Xia?" asked the person from the Study Abroad Office.

"No, I am her suitor. I saw her go upstairs with my own eyes yesterday. I didn't see Xia Zhaoning come downstairs this morning. I didn't expect that she had left, so I was talking incoherently." Eric said hurriedly.

It would be impolite to talk about monitoring foreign students in public, and he didn't want to cause any disputes.

The people from the Study Abroad Office did not pursue the matter further.

Their mission was to pack up Xia Zhaoning's things. As for where Xia Zhaoning went, they were told that he had returned to China.

They don't know how or when they returned to China.

Their task was to pack up Xia Zhaoning's things and the people from the Study Abroad Office left.

Eric was so angry that he took a leave of absence that day and went home to find his father and told him that Xia Zhaoning had left.

Eric's father raised his hand and slapped him twice, "You bastard, you couldn't even get a girl when I asked you to, and now she's noticed something's wrong."

Eric was depressed, "Father, let's go after him."

"I don't know where she is or when she left. How can I catch up with her?"

Eric's family was in a state of gloom and sorrow, and it was very regretful.

If Xia Zhaoning develops new materials in their laboratory, they will be able to occupy an absolute dominant position!

Alas, what a pity.

Xia Zhaoning's side.

She and Ji Mingchi took turns driving and successfully left Country D...