But Wang Yue, Zhuang Xiaoting, and Wu Shanshan all understood that Zhuang Tunan was planning to go find the girl from his dream.
It had already been several years, though. Wang Yue and the others felt sorry for Zhuang Tunan, but they all thought there probably wasn't much hope.
Still, everyone knew that if Zhuang Tunan didn't try for himself, it would likely become a lifelong regret.
If Lin Dongzhe had been there, he would definitely have pointed at Zhuang Tunan and said, "He's got no heart when it comes to women!"
But Lin Dongzhe was in Shanghai now, eagerly waiting for Zhuang Tunan to come there, so no one stopped him.
After Zhuang Tunan got into graduate school, he didn't go looking for Lin Dongzhe. Instead, he immediately began asking around for news about Li Jia.
Tongji University was large, and its School of Architecture was no small place, but there weren't many women there. Only a handful were both pretty and academically outstanding.
So it didn't take Zhuang Tunan long to find out about Li Jia. To his great regret, he learned that he had missed the chance to see her.
As it turned out, Li Jia hadn't gone on to graduate school. After graduating, she'd gone straight to work at Shanghai's planning bureau on the strength of her excellent grades.
The reason she'd been able to get a job there was that she was a single young woman with good grades, which gave her the edge over the other applicants.
Fortunately, the planning bureau was right there in Shanghai, and Zhuang Tunan quickly found out exactly where it was. Whenever he got the chance, he went to wander around nearby, hoping to catch a glimpse of the girl from his dreams.
What frustrated Zhuang Tunan was that