u'an and Gu Ruandong didn't explicitly say, Lu Kuo bluntly stated. 。Lu Kuo wasn't like them. Even a simple sentence would take him several turns to get around, not nearly as direct. 。Zuo Yu'an's meani...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 farewellsd his heart skipped a beat. However, he could only try his best to restrain himself, pretending to be nonchalant as he started the next round of cards. 。Regardless of whether the cards in his hand we...