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Dusk in the Park · Invitation 214
Yu Qing invites Gu Yan to join an evening sketching activity; Gu Yan declines several times because he cannot draw, until she suggests that he only needs to help describe the colors he sees. He carefully notes down the shifts in the sky, and she discovers in his words light that she was accustomed to overlooking. In the end, the two exchange a drawing and a page of notes, neither judging who is more talented; for the next invitation, Gu Yan will choose a neighborhood familiar to him.
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