again. Lu Yaoyao then gently pushed him away, letting him answer the phone first.He was breathing slightly hard, one hand still around her, his eyes still glued to her, the other hand taking the phon...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 farewells Xiao Bao struggled off Ting Lan's arms in less than a minute, wanting to walk on his own. He had just learned to walk, wobbly and unsteady, which made people both nervous and incredibly adorable.Zhu...