The days flew by in a blur of activity, and before long, winter break of their senior year had arrived.
Pu Yu's schedule was packed: she reviewed her weak areas in the sciences in the morning, worked through practice papers and read articles in the afternoon, and often spent her evenings helping her grandmother with work or slipping over to Yuan Su's repair shop for a while.
That morning, sunlight cast a few lazy shafts through the air.
Pu Yu was hunched over the little table in the repair shop, hard at work on a physics paper.
Ever since Yuan Su had scolded her that day, she had temporarily set her writing aside. She had to use winter break to make up for the marks she had lost.
"Yu! Yu!"
Xu Suiran swept in like a gust of wind, waving a newspaper in her hand. Her cheeks were red from the cold, but her eyes were astonishingly bright.
"Look, look! I bought the latest Nanhua Daily again!"
Yuan Su's hands never stopped moving. He merely cast a casual glance her way before continuing to fiddle with the parts in his hands.
Pu Yu was a little surprised. "Why did you buy another newspaper?"
"Because I'm your number one fan!" Xu Suiran spread the newspaper across her table and pointed at the most prominent spot in the supplement. "And not only did I buy it, I found a huge surprise! Look!"
Pu Yu took the newspaper. It was the supplement section of the Nanhua Daily.
Her gaze swept over it, but she did not find her name in the familiar "Youthful Musings" column.
"Here, right here!" Sui Sui excitedly pointed to an inconspicuous little box in the bottom-right corner of the page. "'Notes on Life'! Did you write this piece, 'Roundy