Chapter 38: The Viewers, Sherlock Holmes of Shipping
Perhaps because he'd been too excited the night before, Chi Zhen woke up at seven o'clock sharp, wide awake and full of energy. There was no getting back to sleep. He got out of bed, washed up, and went downstairs to buy breakfast: fried dough sticks and soybean milk.
He rented an apartment in an old residential building near campus. Even though it was summer vacation, the area downstairs was still lively. The breakfast shops and snack stalls were all open as usual; none of them had closed just because school was out.