Night fell like ink, casting a dim, warm halo over Xu Yin's desk. She sat hunched over the desk, a slender finger holding a Hero fountain pen as the nib scratched across the stationery.
Xu Yin wrote to Shen Niantang about the good news Xu Zhi had brought home today, and mentioned that ever since she took the miraculous black pill Shen Niantang had made for her, her health had been quietly and steadily improving.
Leaning over the desk, Xu Yin poured her thoughts onto the paper, filling page after page. Suddenly, a thought struck her, and she continued writing: she would be graduating soon, and she wanted to open an art gallery afterward. When that day came, she wanted to wear a sky-blue Bolashki dress and join Shen Niantang for the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Chapter 51