Location: Taichung National Theater 5F VVG Restaurant
After two nights of badminton, Friday night returned to wine night. Liang came down from Taipei to Taichung for some business and asked me to arrange a dinner. Besides the usual crew—Gong and Peter—we also invited Ruiyi, now a branch manager at DBS Bank, and his sister Ruiying. It's been over three years since the Ruiyi siblings visited our office on the 25th floor of Kingkey 100 in Shenzhen. Time really flies. Six of us, four bottles of Italian red wine, and a table full of delicious food at the Taichung National Theater's 5th floor with its huge floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the Qizhi District night view. Thanks to Liang for treating us. Taiwan is small—afterwards, at the theater entrance, Ruiying's husband came to pick her up. We said hello and found out he's part of the Jiutian Traditional Arts Troupe. Then Gong realized his mom and Ruiying's husband's mom were classmates back at Mingdao High School, so he'd actually attended their wedding banquet at the Intercontinental Baseball Stadium. We thought it was our first meeting, but we'd crossed paths before—fate is indeed mysterious. After parting ways, Gong and I went t…
