Whenever Liu Rulan was around Ye Manman, she would excitedly come up with new vocabulary, which thrilled Liu Gaoyuan.
He watched her jump joyously from half a meter behind, tears streaming down his old cheeks.
Ye Manman genuinely felt the wonder of family bond and maternal love, things that seemed beyond the explanation of science and medicine. It felt magical and warm.
She chatted with Liu Rulan for quite a while to soothe her emotions before getting ready to go home.
Tomorrow, she had a speech competition to attend – it would last all day, with preliminaries in the morning and finals in the afternoon, and scores announced on the spot. She needed to review her previous speech script today.
Although speech scripts seemed trivial to Ye Manman, for whom English was like a second native language, and she enjoyed improvisational speaking, straying too far from the outline could affect her scores.
