mories of their time together. 。Thinking this way, he went upstairs. 。He carefully entered the password on the lock, a mix of nervousness and apprehensive timidity gripping him. 。The door lock clicked...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 farewellsas good at identifying loopholes in her opponents' logic and responding flawlessly. 。That was the first time someone had told Tinglan she had what it took to be a lawyer. From that day on, a spark of...