"I just think you're a friend, and it doesn't matter whether you're a man or a woman."
Tang Ning was also standing under the tree. The camphor tree was tall and large, casting its shade over both of them.
"Of course I jumped to conclusions at first. Yan Ruzhi—any way you hear it, it sounds like a woman's name. But later on, I wasn't so sure anymore. I always feel that from a person's lines, you can understand something of their character and how they handle things. So I occasionally thought: what if he's a man, and 'Yan Ruzhi' is just a pen name he chose because it creates such a sharp contrast that nobody would ever connect it to him? I've had that sudden thought before.
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