When Time and You Are Just Right

[Flirtatious Senior + Cheerful Junior Girl]

In high school, Gu Shan had a crush on her senior, Shen Muran.

The first time sunlight fell across the boy’s fair, sharply defined face, she fell in love with him at first sight. Shen Muran... she thought he probably liked her too.

At Shen Muran’s graduation ceremony, Gu Shan worked up the courage to confess to him.

The boy trapped her between himself and the wall with one hand, his warm breath brushing her blushing cheek.

“Junior, didn’t you say you’d apply to the same university as me...”

“...Okay... then wait for me.”

Countless times, Gu Shan had imagined standing beside Shen Muran.

At last, her wish came true: she and Shen Muran both got into the same university.

By then,

he was the celebrated campus heartthrob at Jianglin University, admired and adored by countless girls,

while she was a junior with admirers of her own from the moment she arrived.

One day, the junior girl said to him, eyes red, “Shen Muran, from now on, I don’t like you anymore.”

The boy gently wiped the tears from the corner of Gu Shan’s eye with his thumb, then lowered his head until he was less than an inch from her.

“Junior, you can’t just say you don’t like me anymore. Did I agree to that?”

“But you’ve never said you like me.”

“Do I have to say it? I’d rather prove it to you with my actions...”

Years later, Gu Shan took out the watch Shen Muran had given her.

So love was like a tiny secret engraved on a watch face. Every moment could be called eternity...

How lucky that, in the most beautiful years of our lives, we happened to meet...

I turn around, and there you are, where the lamplight fades.

[Shen Muran + Jiang Shan]