nd Zhao Ting Xing's voices drifted up from downstairs, and wisps of smoke rose from the window outside the stairwell landing. She went down the stairs to the adjacent kitchen, where she saw two men,...Ting Lan was about to close her notebook when she saw, on the last page, a single line of elegant script:

Some flowers bloom high up in the trees.

Tinglan recognized these characters. They were a line from the poem "Bride" by the poet Hai Zi. The poem starts with:

and many days after that

Many farewellse, Chen Ning quietly peeled eggs without saying a word. After finishing, while Zhang Jiao was talking to Xu Haichen, she discreetly put one back on Song Jingye's plate."Your instructors have worked ha...