nner, while her mother was clearing up in the kitchen, sheAfter all, she wasn't a real high school student anymore, so she was very rational and calm. "Dad, do you have records of every penny you sent...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 farewellsmost familiar with this car."Han Li really wanted to put her effort into other men; it wasn't impossible. She was very skilled at chatting, responding to his advances and then subtly throwing back som...