Not Knowing Love Means Letting It Slip Away

Secret Crush + Mutual Firsts

This is a tragic story about unrequited love, telling the tale of the leads’ high school years and the course their lives take after they start working. They liked each other back in high school, but for various reasons, neither learned how the other felt before graduation. The heroine went to Y City in J Province for university, while the hero stayed in Z City, S Province. After two years of college, he went abroad for several years of training. Throughout that time, the heroine remained single. The hero assumed she was simply private and had never made her relationships public, since she had never shown any interest in him in high school. So he tried to forget her and agreed to date someone who pursued him. But after less than a month, he could no longer keep lying to himself, so he broke up with her and never dated anyone again. It wasn’t until the heroine died that he learned she had loved him and had never dated anyone. Because of her family circumstances, she had believed she wasn’t good enough for him. After graduating from university, the heroine stayed in Y Province and became a surgeon, while the hero returned to Z City to inherit his family business. Later, the heroine developed cancer and began traveling around the country. During her travels, she helped a married couple and learned their love story, which was also full of hardships. The heroine eventually passed away. While sorting through her belongings, they found a diary and gave it to the hero. Only then did he learn the truth about everything. From that day on, the hero traveled around the country, helping many people and fulfilling the dream the heroine had held in high school. He later opened a relief center named Nian Yu Xi Tan. At last, he visited the heroine’s grave, and he never married.