Song Sheng spent two weeks sleeping restlessly. Qian Meigui sent him one email with an IP address that came from a computer lab at a public centre, that anyone can use and log in. She told him that she was fine and not to worry.
But how could he not?
Nonetheless, he waited for some other sign from her, patiently. She had to be all right. She would tell him if she were not. Right?
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Qian Meigui grew accustomed to the routine of the Lin household; they were her mother's side of the family.
She spent time with them over dinners, over going out together. She told them she was practicing law, and they were happy for her. Most of her time in the house was spending time with her little cousins, the family she never got to know.
She wondered, why would her parents not want her to live this life? But she did not dwell on it for too long.
