in her family thought highly of her. They looked at her as if she were a dog, not even their own dog. She had been quite proud back in the day, so when she ran into an old classmate from middle school...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 farewellsnced Lin Zhi's words with a single sentence, as if all along, she had indeed been driven by an animal instinct to explore new horizons, regardless of consequences.But, humans are animals after all.She...