in groups of two or three, filling every seat in the restaurant.The breakfast buffet was almost cleared, leaving only some unappetizing scraps picked over. The chef had also stopped replenishing it.T...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 outweigh his joy, and she wouldn't have him feel guilty in any way.After dinner, she lay on the sofa scrolling through her phone and communicating with Haojie about work matters. In this way, it shou...