Mo Qizong did not answer. He lowered his eyes to the photo album, and his slender fingers kept flipping through the album.

Finally, in a pile of yellowed old photos, he found two familiar figures. The background was Zuixianlou, with people coming and going. The protagonists were smiling sweetly. An adult man and a little girl appeared in the camera.

That was Zheng Lin and Xie Daoxuan more than 20 years ago. The two of them actually appeared together at my grandfather’s ...