At 6:30 in the morning, beside the pleasant artificial lake at Green Grass Avenue, Zhan Bingxue, dressed in casual sportswear, was slowly doing stretching exercises.
Occasionally, one or two middle-aged men with an extraordinary aura would pass by. They would merely nod politely and greet her before moving on, without any further entanglement.
The early morning sun overhead brought warmth without making people feel too hot, while flowers blanketed the hills and nodded in the breeze.
In front of her, on the branches of the willow trees by the lakeshore, two orioles were chirping away, and in the flower bushes before her, butterflies fluttered their wings, dancing gracefully upon the petals.
After exercising for a while and starting to break into a light sweat, Zhan Bingxue stopped her movements and quietly sat in the pavilion by the lake.
A gentle breeze occasionally blew across the lake's surface, raising ripples and also lifting her long, dark red hair.
