Tao Yan waited for Ge Cheng to come home right outside his door. But he still hadn't returned by lunchtime... Her legs were starting to go numb, and her stomach growled with hunger... She crouched down and sat on the steps by Ge Cheng's doorway, then took a bottle of water from her briefcase and drank it to stave off her hunger... More than an hour passed. Lunchtime was over. Tao Yan wrapped her arms around her knees and buried her head against her thighs... People kept coming and going in the hallway. As they passed Tao Yan, they would turn to glance at her, but none dared approach and ask her anything, simply because she was a stranger and no one knew where she had come from...
