。She hadn't traveled in a long time. The last trip she took was to Japan with Lin Zhifei, but back then they were very poor. They flew economy class and stayed in small hotels. Every penny was careful...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 farewellst came home, Officer Chen would be dumbfounded. They didn't look like parents at all. Looking at his mother, she didn't even have the presence of her own son. It was obvious that she couldn't control...