Living together for a while, he got to understand her a bit. She came from a good background, her family quite wealthy; her parents would visit once a week. He had seen from afar the luxury cars her father drove during his visits.
She was an only child, pampered and spoiled at home, but she didn't have the air of a delicate little princess about her. Apart from playing the piano terribly that left her family dispositional, she had learned impeccable calligraphy from her grandfather and followed her grandmother in painting a beautiful traditional Chinese landscape.
According to another tenant in the quadrangle who had been living there for several years, Lu Xing's grandparents were professors in the literature department of a renowned university, treating their neighbors kindly, upholding good morals, and being rational and refined.
