The Rustling Forest's Longing for Days Gone By

[Mutual purity, not a campus novel, no villains, mutual healing, older man. Based on a true story.]

"Stop crying. If you keep it up, the pond's going to overflow."

Those were the first words Song Linyu said to Mu Shiyi when they met, when she was twelve and crying her eyes out. At her most disheveled, that dazzling, warm-hearted boy entered her life.

She was too young to understand what it meant to fall for someone. She only knew that she wanted to draw closer to that light and bask in its warmth.

Later, they spent six years apart. When they met again, she finally realized she had fallen for him long ago.

"Mu Shiyi, you like me, don't you?"

Under the warm light, the man smiled brightly. Before she could stammer out her feelings, he called her out on them, leaving her flustered and restless.

"I..."

But before she could panic and run away, Song Linyu took her hand. "Can't you tell that I like you too?"

At last, fortune smiled on her. At twenty, she married the boy she'd loved since she was twelve.

They met in spring, grew close in summer, fell in love in autumn, and pledged themselves to each other in winter. As the seasons turned, their love only deepened.

At their wedding, with the hall packed with guests, the bride was so overcome with emotion she could barely hold her bouquet. The groom's eyes were red with love, too.

Years later, Mu Shiyi had forgotten the details of the wedding, but she still clearly remembered her handsome husband, eyes red and voice choked with emotion, whispering in her ear: "Miss Mu Shiyi, thank you for agreeing to become Mrs. Song..."

Everyone thought Mu Shiyi must have saved the world in her previous life to marry Song Linyu. Only Song Linyu knew that he was probably the one who had saved the world in his previous life...