"Ying Ying, when are you coming back to campus? Oh, after the Lantern Festival? Okay... How do you manage to stay at home for so long? I can't even stand it for a day. Alright, you get some rest then."
After hanging up, Wu Xiaoya walked alone through the university grounds. If she could, she would have loved to stay at home for a few more days. But recently, she'd been surviving on scraps, so she decided it was better to use the excuse of returning to school early to preserve what was left of her pitiful mother-daughter relationship.
