Epilogue

It had now been a week since the arrest. The long cold nights were slowly giving way to sunnier days, and the evenings had grown much more pleasant. Chen Yi and Sun XiaoXiao were leaning against the railings of room 221's balcony while watching the campus, while Mei Lin and An Jing were playing a game of GO inside.

"By the way, who was the thief?" Chen Yi asked.

"It was that guy from the office," XiaoXiao replied without turning to her friend.

"Which guy?"

"You know, the creep, the one with that weird hair that looked like this." XiaoXiao tried to show the supposedly weird haircut by styling her own hair.

"I don't get it." Chen Yi's mind refused to come up with a picture of the man.

"You know. The guy who was fired after he was caught taking pictures of girls."

"I don't remember him."

"Well, you should know these things. It's called being involved."

"What are you staring at anyway? You have been looking for some time now."

"Them," XiaoXiao pointed. "There they go again," she said dreamily, watching Li Wei and An Mei walking around campus. "They are just so cute together."

"How come they are still doing the walks even after the patrol is over?" Chen Yi asked, revealing her inexperience in love.

"Because it's romantic, idiot," XiaoXiao said, not taking her eyes off the couple. "I wish I had someone like Professor Li to walk hand in hand with."

"Well, you have me," Chen Yi said helpfully.

XiaoXiao shook her head and then smiled at her friend. "Yeah. We just have to make do with each other." She then went back to gazing at the professor and his wife. "I will miss this, though. They will probably stop doing it regularly after a week or two."

"I miss the five-star food," Chen Yi reminisced.

"That's all you think about," XiaoXiao retorted, but even she was growing nostalgic. "But, the food was really good. I wonder how long it will be before we taste something that good again."

"How about tomorrow?" came An Jing's voice from inside.

"What do you mean? Xiao-Jing? Can we really?" Chen Yi asked hopefully as she ran back indoors.

"Well, I asked Fen-jie to get us some free seats at Zao Shen's. Just a little gift for having done her a favour."

XiaoXiao gasped. "You mean Zao Shen's, the best restaurant in Tianjing City? Where it takes even the elite months and months to get a table?"

An Jing simply grinned.

Chen Yi gave An Jing a ferocious bear hug while saying, "Jingjing. I love you."

"We need proper clothes." XiaoXiao was already planning the trip. "We can't go to a fancy place like that with what we usually wear."

"We can go shopping tomorrow morning. It's Sunday anyway," Mei Lin spoke without taking her eyes off the game.

"That's perfect. We can make it a girl's night out."

"Can we go dancing?"

"Why not? Dancing after dinner would be great."

"Hey. How did I lose?"

"Maybe we can even get ice cream."

"I still had... Mei Lin... How did you win?"

"They serve ice cream at fancy restaurants."

"Really?"

"I am beating you next time."

"Maybe we can meet some boys."