"He called to tell me he's coming back tomorrow. I said there's no rush, but he said his family was urging him to return so as not to delay his studies," Ren Chongda said, thinking how fortunate he was that his students were generally mature and steady, causing him little trouble as a counselor.
Student Pan went home for his grandfather's funeral, and it's uncertain how he's feeling now. Xie Wanying wished on one hand that Student Pan would quickly bounce back, and on the other hand, she found the situation quite regrettable.
"You care about him a lot," Ren Chongda asked her, curious about her interest in this matter, just like Cao Yong.
With fifty students in a class, the probability of something happening in a student's family over several years of study is high. It wasn't just Pan Shihua; last year another boy in the class lost a family member and she didn't inquire about it then.
