When Song Ning woke the next morning, she stared at the ceiling above her, dazed for a long time.
She checked her watch. It was almost eight.
Gu Zheng had to call everyone together for a meeting today. He had said he would come find her at the Guesthouse once he finished.
Song Ning had breakfast in the cafeteria, then borrowed some paper and a pen from the receptionist on her way back.
She sat down at the desk in her room and began sorting through her thoughts.
First, she wrote a large "G" on the paper.
Whatever Lu Changqing had tried to express before he died had to be what he most wanted to tell her.
He had opened his mouth several times without making a sound.
"G" was very likely an initial.
Did it stand for a surname?
The first one that came to mind was Gu, followed by Gong and Guo.
Gu Zheng had been standing right beside her then. If Lu Changqing had meant Gu, he only needed to look at Gu Zheng.
But he hadn't.
Did it stand for a place?
Song Ning wrote down "Harbor City."
There were plenty of place names beginning with G, but Harbor City was the first that came to mind.
After Chen Yuting died, the South China Military District had sent people there both openly and covertly. The other side had put forward the bodyguard named A Biao, who insisted that Chen Yuting had provoked the incident. Getting justice would require mediation between the two governments, and there had been no result in the short term.
Song Ning added a question mark after Harbor City, planning to ask Gu Zheng for more details.
Did it stand for an object?
Song Ning paused for only a moment before writing down