It was past 2:00 a.m.—the hour when most people are fast asleep.
Liu Ruyan, fully made up, stepped out of the Lin Family Estate with Wang Heng. After things wrapped up last night, Lin Xian had told her that she would need to be up by the third watch. As a national television host, Liu Ruyan was well-traveled and knew that in some northern cities, there was a custom of rising at the fifth watch to pay New Year’s calls—though that was typically after the New Year had already begun.
That the people of Linjiacun Village were doing this before the New Year was quite rare.
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