He had heard it had rained in Jade Capital for days. After a few cool days, the sky had cleared today, and the heat was back.
The sun was blazing.
Chen Shu watched for a while, then decided he did not want to roast in the sun with her and went inside.
A documentary was playing on the living-room television.
The girl lay sprawled over the coffee table, writing her homework without lifting her head. The table was so low that she was practically curled up on the floor, her folded legs angled left and her body tilted slightly right. A Longhaired White Cat sat on the table too, head cocked, earnestly supervising her homework.
When Chen Shu opened the door, the girl and the Cat looked up together. They gave him only a glance before lowering their heads again.
"What are you doing?"
"Homework."
"You still get homework in college?"
"The teacher assigned it... Don't you?"
"We have, but our teachers only suggest a few books to read and a few spell structures to study. They don't know whether we do it, and they don't care." Chen Shu leaned in to glance at the dense formulas covering her paper. Poor girl.
"Our teacher doesn't check either. It's just a suggestion."
"Then why are you doing it..."
"My sister told me to."
"What a wicked woman. She won't even let you have fun over summer break."
"Wicked woman!"
The girl repeated his words as she wrote, secretly putting extra force into them to express her resentment.
Her pen, however, never stopped moving.
Neither did the narrator's voice from the television.
"Why not work in the study?"
"I'm not going into her study."
"There's a desk in your room too."
"I want to watch TV."
"..."
Chen Shu glanced at the