"Dad, will you and Aunt Yang come back for New Year?" Jing Chu asked.
Lv Beiguang shook his head. "Probably not, it's too far. The train ride takes too long."
"Yeah, everyone understands that. Going back and forth, it's almost two months gone. That's basically spending the New Year on the train. Just thinking about it feels awful."
"How are things for you two at school?"
"Not bad. Classes are really intense. There are a lot of women in our department, and more than half are middle‑aged. So far nothing bad has happened."
After hearing his daughter, Lv Beiguang felt much more at ease.
"Dad, it's the same in our department, lots of middle‑aged people. We're just rookies in front of them, but nothing nasty has happened."
"Not many people live off campus, right?"
Jing Chu nodded. "In our class I'm the only one not living in the dorm. But I heard them say dorm life isn't that great either. With so many people, how could there not be any conflicts?"
