On the day sophomore-year classes were reassigned, Lin Yan gave up his spot as the top student at the city's No. 1 High School and transferred to Zhenhua High, the worst school in town. Everyone thought he'd lost his mind.
Only he knew that two summers ago, outside a convenience store, a girl in a white dress had handed him an umbrella and smiled. "Hey, you're soaked."
He'd searched for her for two years, and at last he'd found her. But Shen Yu didn't remember him. Frowning, she said, "Stay away from me. I don't hang out with good students."
Lin Yan folded his perfect-score test paper into a plane and sent it flying into her desk. "Then from now on, I won't be a good student either."
He carefully laid his plans, step by step, from the classroom boundary line to becoming deskmates, from tutoring to standing side by side. Everyone else thought the top student had gone astray, but he alone knew the truth: there were no such things as coincidences in this world. He had crossed a sea of people and turned two years of longing into the gentlest scheme.
Later, Shen Yu asked him why he'd insisted on transferring to Zhenhua. He only smiled and said nothing. Some answers were too weighty to tell all at once. It would take a lifetime to say them.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
