The Secret Notes of a Parent-Teacher Conference

In the living room late at night, Shen Manlin pushed open the door and caught her youngest son, Lin Xingze, looking flustered on the sofa. A faint, elusive undercurrent hung in the air, leaving her both stunned and at a loss. Lin Xingze thought his mother would scold him, but instead, Shen Manlin sat down beside him and, in a low voice, asked a question that made his heart skip a beat. From that day on, a hidden boundary quietly crumbled between them, and their mother-son relationship could never go back to what it was.