Now looking back, that person's way of expressing themselves was quite interesting. Sometimes he couldn't find the exact Chinese phrasing, so he used English, and it was a very colloquial kind of English.
Back then, she was still in China, and for her, English was just a subject she had to pass in exams. She couldn't distinguish where the English came from, let alone the nuances of its slang. But now that she had been living in M Country for many years, recalling that person's wording brought her an epiphany: those traits today would suffice to conclude that he lived overseas.
"That person should also be in M Country, maybe even in this state. And the way he used slang... he's somewhere not far from this town!"
Reaching this conclusion gave Shi Nian quite a fright.
Back then, coming to M Country was considered a random decision made by Dad on his deathbed, but now it seems almost fatedly strange.
