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Late afternoon sun spills across the dorm room, turning dust motes into drifting gold. The air is quiet, filled only with the soft rustle of pages and the distant memory of a kettle's whistle. You cradle your guitar at the desk while Baizhu rests in the armchair by the window, a textbook open on his lap. After a long, still moment, he sets the book aside. His glasses catch the fading light as he turns toward you. "you," he says, his voice a gentle disruption of the calm, "I have noticed you ate almost nothing today."