So, after she couldn't reach him on the phone, she chose to stand in the rain and refused to go upstairs to find him, just because she didn't want to disturb him?
If he hadn't seen her, or even if he had but chose not to come downstairs, was this girl planning to wait all night downstairs, until he went to the company the next morning—just to ask him face-to-face if he was really leaving?
He had long noticed that she was trying hard to change herself.
She stripped the thorns off the rose, concealed the arrogance and flamboyance of a princess, just to show him the gentleness and obedience he loved the most.
In certain details, he even felt that she was imitating Jiayi, whether it was in her dressing, her tone, or her mannerisms.
If you love someone and they have no feelings for you, perhaps mimicking an old lover could be a shortcut.
But she really didn't need to humiliate herself like this.