Stroke order rule 8 – left sweep first
A 左払い hidariharai (lit. “left sweep”) is a slanted, upper-right-to-lower-left stroke; a 右払い migiharai (lit. “right sweep”) is its mirror image: a slanted, upper-left-to-lower-right stroke. This is what they look like in a serif and a sans-serif font.
Stroke order rule 8 says:
Whenever a hidariharai intersects a migiharai, forming an X-shape, the hidariharai is written first.
The hidariharai in 愛 AI is more elaborated than the basic shape we presented in the first diagram, but the stroke order is the same.
There are no exceptions to this rule.