The sun shone brightly, and the winter sky over Beijing was a deep, distant blue.
Unlike the cloudless expanse that morning, the afternoon sky was dotted with clusters of strikingly three-dimensional white clouds, drifting leisurely like fluffy cotton candy.
For many people, today might have been just another ordinary day,
but for the countless students, it marked the beginning of winter vacation, which would last for over a month. It meant temporarily saying goodbye to campus and returning home to live as leisurely as the clouds for a while.
College students in particular had finished dealing with the last of their school affairs,
and many of them had already boarded trains or planes home,
looking up at the blue sky beyond their windows.
Meanwhile, those who had decided that morning to remain in Beijing for the time being and did not need to worry about buying tickets home
were already enjoying the laid-back atmosphere of winter vacation in The Cabin.
With no eight a.m. classes and no need to rush to the library early to claim a seat for studying, Tang Bing had spent the leisurely morning humming while cleaning her room, then washing all her clothes and putting them into the dryer.
Now, feeling completely unburdened, she sat in front of the television playing the newly released "Old Ring Head" DLC.
Having just finished dealing with things at home yesterday, Meng Lang was free today as well, flipping through a magazine. Gou Yu, meanwhile, had tried making a new kind of cake that morning and was now reading several newly published papers.
Fang Xiaoran, as usual, remained quietly downstairs in her room, reading and studying by herself.
As for Xia Yao and Ming Ling, the only two seniors in The Cabin, both had graduation-project matters to discuss with their