The Last Night Before Graduation

Lin Xiaoxiao spent four university years on high marks and a plan to stay in Beijing with Shen Yi. On the last night before graduation she sees him in a corridor, kissing a rich young woman in plain sight. He does not plead. He says he needs a woman who can lift his career, not one whose days go to study. / The future she came to confirm is an ending. He spent her years, then priced her below a family that can open doors. What she does with the rest of that week is the part left unfinished. He does not get to assume she enters the city beside him.