oining him in the office was Han Ya from the actuarial department. He had just pitched a new project at the meeting, one that required the actuarial department to assess its feasibility before decidin...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 farewellsademy or in the army, many people around him would tell dirty jokes or watch short films, but he ignored them all. Later, as his position rose and he supervised more people, he strictly forbade the so...