No Matter How Far, We'll Be Together

In high school, a few months of secret-crush encounters started it all. Believing that if you like someone, you should be brave enough to tell them, Gao Ruohan began gradually getting closer to Su Zexi. The person she liked was the taciturn top student who always scored higher than her. At that age, when you're still in your teens, you feel fearless, convinced that if you dare to dream it, you can do it. Perhaps the luckiest thing of all is that when you like someone, they happen to like you back.

Su Zexi slowly fell for Gao Ruohan, the girl who was always chattering away at him, a clumsy student who wasn't very good at studying. But high school meant the pivotal college entrance exams were drawing near, and under the weight of his family's expectations and his studies, Su Zexi chose to hold himself back. He didn't dare say a single word about his feelings.

Gao Ruohan couldn't understand. If they liked each other, shouldn't they be together? As time went on, she started arguing with him again and again, demanding the answer she wanted. Su Zexi said they could be together after graduation. But in the final stretch of senior year, school rules and their schedules left them with less and less contact. Their disagreements grew, and the distance between them widened.

Li Xiuyang had liked Gao Ruohan since high school. He chose to watch her try so hard to love another boy, listening to her complaints and laughter. Though he was practically invisible in high school and in Gao Ruohan's world, after the college entrance exams he secretly applied to a school in N City, where she lived. At the very least, he wanted to be closer to her, and to reach her quickly whenever he wanted to see her! The two of them will spark a faint romance midway through the story.

Ye Zi likes Shan Xuanru, a laid-back boy. He may seem careless, but he knows where to draw the line. She watched him fall in love and break up time and again, never saying a word because she was afraid they wouldn't even be friends anymore. At their final post-exam gathering, Ye Zi asked, “Will we never see each other again?” Shan Xuanru replied, “We're buddies for life!” Ye Zi suddenly laughed and said, “As if I care about being your friend. I've liked you for so long, you idiot. You should've figured it out by now!”

When she finished, Shan Xuanru froze. He thought about the girl who had been by his side for the past three years. When he played basketball, she brought him water. When he couldn't finish his homework, she helped him catch up, page by page. Time and again, he invited her to the celebratory dinners for his relationships, and she always smiled and wished him happiness. When he broke up with someone, she'd ask what kind of girl he planned to date next...

He had always thought of this as the same kind of friendship he shared with Gao Ruohan. She had been by his side all along. The scary thing was that he suddenly realized he might have developed feelings for this girl he had always called his buddy, and he had never noticed!

After the college entrance exams, Gao Ruohan and Su Zexi lost touch. With 1,076 kilometers between them, she thought they would probably never meet again. The Gao Ruohan who entered university was no longer the girl she had been in high school. She understood a lot more, and often thought that if the person who'd met Su Zexi back then had been who she was now, she might not have caused him so much trouble. That's just what love is like: you argue, you make a fuss, you act spoiled, but that's all part of being that age. At university, Gao Ruohan had a roommate named An Xin'er, and they got along very well, though she often thought of Ye Zi. Just when she thought she and Su Zexi would never have anything to do with each other again, a postcard from the city where he lived changed everything...