Nanchen. Summer Solstice.The most ordinary of Wednesdays.Late afternoon, and dark clouds hung low, threatening to fall.A damp heaviness pressed down from all sides —...

A midsummer night. The evening breeze was, for once, refreshingly cool.Occasionally a vehicle sped down the road, raising a loud rushing noise against the...

Zhu Yunque had never forgotten: her story with Lu Rangchen began in 2013, when she was in Year Two of high school.That year, the...

In the end, Zhu Yunque never spent that hundred yuan.She pressed the folded note deep into the pocket of her school uniform, then went...

For a long time after that, Zhu Yunque made no effort to draw attention to Lu Rangchen.At least, that was how it appeared to...

By late June, Xi City had fallen deep into the height of summer. The sky stretched out in an unbroken expanse of blue, and...

At mealtimes, the Chen Family Diner outside campus was packed with students who'd come out to eat."...I genuinely have never met anyone that self-absorbed...

The afternoon exam was for the humanities and social sciences. The last exam hall had the same supervisor as before — the dean of...

Lin Tao stared at the radiant smile on Jiang Yan's face for three full seconds. Then she chose, with complete composure, to look back...

With the new semester underway, every class from first year — except for the two elite accelerated tracks — had been reshuffled. Students were...

September inXi City was still stifling and oppressive. The heat rolled in with the wind, and though it was only nine in the morning,...