“Nian’an, you’ll be gone for years. Will Teacher Chen really agree to this?”
Shen Nian’an pressed her lips together slightly. Her gaze fell on the words “Application to Teach in the Countryside,” and her eyes filled with melancholy.
Half a month ago, she had accompanied her husband, Chen Qiran, as his family member to a civil defense shelter tour organized by the labor union.
Then someone in the crowd shouted, “Oh no, run!”
The cave suddenly collapsed, trapping her and Xu Jingyi, one of Chen Qiran’s female colleagues, beneath the same boulder.
In the chaos, rescuers hurried over, but were stumped when they tried to move the stone.
“They’re both trapped under it. If we rescue one, the other will be crushed. Who do we save first?”
In the darkness, Shen Nian’an heard Chen Qiran answer without hesitation: “Save Xu Jingyi first!”
