"The other side? He should have realized long ago that the clever kid had already run off to the other side. And after he tried every method possible, he finally saw the person he'd dreamed of day and night?"
Xu Changqing clenched her fists. She remembered, in the dream... no! The timing of their reunion was wrong. If it was after the first lunar month that he heard the news, as he said?
'Impossible. There's no way they met again in that year. She clearly remembered that in the dream, it was the winter of that exact year—the first time she had returned to her hometown after leaving the capital.'
It was also that year, back in her hometown, that she learned he had also dropped out of school midway to go do business in the South. Brother Gangzi had said that they had both run off, one after another, leaving him all alone in the capital.
