ent on him was too familiar, mingled with a faint milky fragrance he hadn't noticed before. His mind was in turmoil, if not for the willpower holding him up, he probably wouldn't be able to act like a...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 farewellsGu Ruannuan 。Lu Kuò handed it to her, then turned and left. 。Successfully pushing the hot potato of Gu Ruanruan onto Shu Tinglan, he expressed satisfaction and relief. 。Shu Tinglan couldn't help but...