My heart, once filled with hope, now hung suspended in a chasm of anxiety. Why wasn't she here? Had she not understood what I meant on the phone yesterday? Or had something delayed her? Or maybe…
A terrible restlessness seized me, and I even began to suspect the unthinkable: could Deng Jiazhe have bought off Zhou Haizhen? After all, thanks to me, she and Deng Jiazhe were on pretty good terms, and
















