She read his book and always felt that the notes he wrote in it must represent his thoughts. She read quite a bit and felt through the lines that this Xie Wen was a misanthropic cynic, dissatisfied with the status quo, resentful of living in this toxic world. His words revealed a longing to break free, to escape this place.
It felt like that type of young man who is solitary and extreme, lacking maturity, wanting change, yet lacking the courage and boldness, simply continuously expressing his indignation in his books.
But in her interactions with this man in the past few days, though they were few, she felt he was too dissimilar to the person in the books, thus she was deeply puzzled. Can a person really change so much?
So she was somewhat eager to come and verify for herself.
