On that autumn day, with the breeze drifting gently, in the classroom where they first met, they became deskmates by a twist of fate, and there was that graduation photo of a hundred people.
"Hurry up, run faster! Oh, what are you doing? You're useless." He joked around with his friends, laughing. The floodlights on the sports field shone down on him. It seemed as if that light didn't come from the enormous lamps at all, but from him.
"You want some candy? I'll go get you some." He crouched down and ruffled the head of one of the younger members of their training team. Then he stood up and told the children, "Once you've trained hard, I'll give you all some candy." Children were children. They bounced around happily, and he smiled indulgently, showing off his distinctive canine tooth.
"So, how many guys are you planning to reel in today?" Gao Xinyue asked with a cheeky grin. "What are you talking about? I'm the last genuinely devoted person around here. Come on, let's go paint in the studio!" They seemed to ride the winds of the future, sailing smoothly and resolutely toward it, one step at a time.
"Don't cry. I'm here." Yao Xiaoyi's eyes glistened as she buried her face in Gao Xinyue's arms. It was just a few simple words, yet they had stood by each other for five years. Were they really just five years? All they remembered was 1,836 days.
"One day, I'll take you to see the military parade." There wasn't a trace of a lie in those words, only wholehearted sincerity.
"On New Year's Day, eight years from now, I'll take you home to meet my family." Her eyes showed how sincere she was toward him. What she held in her hands was no ordinary thing, but her own burning, sincere heart.
"I'm afraid you'll stop wanting me..."
Exhaustion.
