She walked out of the lab.
The setting sun was crushed into pieces and scattered across the sky.
Ning Youguang strolled slowly across the UCAS campus toward the parking lot.
She hadn't had dinner yet, but she wasn't in any hurry.
Compared to hunger, what lay before her eyes gave her a deeper sense of satisfaction.
A breeze blew the locust blossoms off the branches, fresh fragrance drifting through the air; she stepped on a ground strewn with petals as she passed a small grove.
From a distance, she saw one of her students standing in the trees gesturing at the air, as if running through some moves, or maybe on the phone.
She was pointing hard at the empty space in front of her, fingers flying through one gesture after another, her whole body pacing back and forth.
Even from far away, Ning Youguang could feel how agitated she was.
