truly genuine feeling of what maternal love was.She asked, "Do you think he would agree to us going back with you"Actually, by then she was quite realistic. She knew that going abroad was the only way...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'd rather go to a bar."We're all bad in our own way.The girl started flying over happily, thinking he had accepted her. Hearing him say that he wanted her to accompany a greasy middle-aged man, she bu...