that he would not do anything illegal or criminal.Drug dealing Unnecessary, his family is well-off. There must be something that drove him to do this.He had wondered if it was to protect Tinglan and t...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 Tinglan pointed out bluntly."How did you know" Lu Kuo didn't feel embarrassed to be found out."Your handwriting isn't like that." Tinglan had seen Lu Kuo's casual writing style, but the words in the...