On the rooftop in their senior year of high school, a boy confesses with three years' worth of diary entries in his hands. Bound by their teacher-student relationship, she cruelly pushes him away. The gift he brings on a snowy night never reaches her, and a promise to wait spans nine years.
A nine-year age gap, the barrier between teacher and student, rumors spreading across the internet, and an ocean between them... With every obstacle piling up, Zhou Yu'an never stops trying to reach her.
Peking University, Stanford: he pushes himself to become stronger, all so he can earn the right to stand by Lin Zhiyao's side. Lesson plans, countless blind dates, and tears shed alone on the rooftop: trapped by reason, she suppresses her feelings, believing her youth has already come to a hasty end.
A long-awaited first kiss beneath the magnolia tree. At their wedding, the diary from nine years ago opens. The words “Don't waste the daylight” run through their entire youth.
A mutual crush delayed by nine years, a tender love that defies convention: time finally heals every regret.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
