章節 281: A lunch date with a real father.

For thirty more minutes, professor He stuck around stubbornly, pushing Alix and driving her to talk about things she would have much rather erase from her mind with some bleach perhaps, like Jing Hee's arrival into her life as a child.

Alix kept her eyes on the clock that was sitting high up on her wall above the book case. As soon as the one hour was up she smiled.

"Our time is up." She said.

There was a sense of relief in her words which nobody could possibly miss. She was like one of the students in class that had just heard the sound of the bell and could finally get a break.

Professor He closed her notebook and put it in her pocket. The session had ended just before she could bring up Alix's birth mother. No matter, there would be a lot of time to dig into all that.

"It's time for me to assign my first homework to you." She said seriously.

She noticed the crease on Alix's forehead and it made her smile just a little.