Good Things Are on the Way

When Lin Wan squatted on the curb and ate pancakes and fruit, she never thought that the rest of her life would be like a roller coaster - no, it should be said that it was like a roller coaster without a seat belt, and it still ran backwards. "It's over, it's over," she muttered indistinctly with her mouth full of cookies, "I'm a full forty minutes late. The interviewer must have taken my resume and made it into an origami airplane." The phone screen lit up, it was the seventh missed call, and the note was "Mom". She swiped left without hesitation, flipped the phone over and clasped it on the ground. Lin Wan has learned a truth since he was a child: answering the phone can't solve any problem, but pretending that the phone is out of battery can.