Of course, of course," Jin Chengyu agreed quickly. "We have the discharge papers ready. You can come stay with us, or....."
"All right... I will go with you!" Zhou Yuxi agreed immediately, her voice clipped and cold.
The words landed like a slap across Mu Yunchen's face. She never chose to leave his side. Never willingly separated herself from him.
The shift in her demeanor was so stark, so fundamentally wrong, that everyone in the room felt it.
"Everyone... out," Mu Yunchen said quietly, his voice carrying an edge of steel that brooked no argument.
"What's the matter?" Jin Chengyu asked, worry creasing his features as he looked between them. "Did something happen?"
Jin Zixuan's eyes were similarly concerned, darting from Zhou Yuxi's cold, closed-off expression to Mu Yunchen's carefully controlled one.
