"Send it! Just send it!" she shouted as she finished typing, her finger hovering over the send button!
Jiang Xueli went to the sink and filled it with hot water. She untied the bands from her twin tails and set them on her phone nearby.
The phone screen still showed her chat with Lin Zhengran.
But the message in the text box, "Lin Zhengran, today is my birthday..." remained unsent.
With her long hair draped over her shoulders, Jiang Xueli gazed at her own listless, pallid reflection in the mirror and sighed. "No wonder that big dummy is always saying I shout all the time. Maybe he's right. What on earth am I even doing..."
Jiang Xueli washed her hair and toweled it dry.
While blow-drying her hair, she was struck by a sudden whim. Facing the mirror, she tied her waist-length hair into a single ponytail.
She clasped her hands in front of her, mimicking some pure, innocent maiden.
