adn't seen Ting Lan in years and he didn't know what unpleasant things she would say again. His relationship with Ting Lan was now fragile to the point of shattering at the slightest touch, incapable...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 farewellsever realized before how desperately she wanted to prove herself. Later, she discovered that it was her own inferiority complex, a deep sense of inadequacy for Zhu YUAN'AN.The two individuals, both in...