Find It

That evening, Chu Chen greeted Meng Yixian and the others as they prepared to return to their rooms. He then closed his own door and quickly took out the notebook suspected to have been handwritten by Zhang Huo Ni.

"Finally, I can read it!"

Chu Chen chuckled, poured himself a cup of tea, and took a few sips before opening the notebook and slowly reading through it.

The notebook had been written with a "brush," in neat regular script. The handwriting was very different from the samples of Zhang Huo Ni's handwriting that Chu Chen had seen before. If not for the faint traces of Zhang Huo Ni's brushwork between the lines, along with the words "notebook" written on the inside wall of the paper-hammer bottle, he would have found it hard to believe that Zhang Huo Ni had written it.

Moreover, the contents of the notebook had nothing to do with porcelain. From beginning to end, Chu Chen found that it was mostly about romance and moonlight, along with reflections on life. Anyone who did not know better might have thought it had been written by an artistic young man.

By the time he reached the end, Chu Chen could not help feeling puzzled. With a notebook like this, he could not see what secret was hidden inside. Could it be that Zhang Huo Ni had not written it at all? Or perhaps Zhang Huo Ni really was the author, but the "notebook" written on the inside wall of the bottle referred to another one?

Chu Chen frowned and thought for a while. Then he decided that since it was a secret, it certainly would not be so easy to discover. The writing in the notebook was all arranged vertically, so he decided to try reading it horizontally and