She learned things. He learned things.
He was there.
It started, as these things often do, with a popsicle. meteor garden -2001-
Shancai should have been terrified. She was. Her hands shook as she read the note for the fifth time. But beneath the terror, a hot, stupid coal of anger began to glow. She thought of Si, crying over a broken cello. She thought of his mother, who had never once asked him what he wanted. She thought of her own father, who worked eighteen hours a day and still smiled when he handed her a warm baozi. She learned things
The woman was even more terrifying in person. Immaculate. A hawk carved from jade and diamonds. as these things often do