After Lin Qiao was admitted to graduate school, she discovered that her tutor was Lu Jingshen, a professor who was out of reach when she was an undergraduate. He was cold, ascetic, with a superior IQ, and was known as a "walking academic machine." She was cautious, afraid of making mistakes in front of him. Until an experiment went wrong and she broke a precious instrument, her eyes were red with fear. But Lu Jingshen took off his gold-rimmed glasses and gently rubbed her head: "If it's broken, it's broken. Don't cry." Later she found out that the professor who never accepted gifts treasured the handmade greeting card she gave him anonymously four years ago; the professor who never attended gatherings silently watched every art performance of her undergraduate program...
