A Cup of Tea at Semester’s End

Wen Weiran has spent years building a life out of secrets, because secrets are the only things that keep her safe. As the head of a campus intelligence network, she knows which families are lying, which students are being watched, and which smiles are dangerous. She also carries a private loss: three years of debate training for a competition that is suddenly cancelled, leaving all that effort with nowhere to go. Then Lin Yao steps into her quiet library world, and Wen starts to notice the wrong things first, like a borrowed wristband, a name-tag hidden on a shelf, and a key she once gave away. Lin understands her too quickly, and that makes Wen careless in the worst way. The girl she is sup...