Sensitive, romantic young director × celebrated lawyer
“I love you, and no one knows.”
Midsummer, soda, the school track, the 800-meter race, the convenience store, monthly exams, spicy snacks, the band, watching the sea, monthly exams, sunset, a power outage, the sports meet, white shirts, school uniforms, notes, the back gate, group photos, corridors, novels, bicycles, diaries, parent-teacher meetings, magazines, the podium, flag-raising ceremonies, morning study, dorms, basketball, someone’s retreating figure, evening study, high ponytails, the cafeteria, tardiness, standing punishment, self-criticism, three years, exchanged glances, evasions, heartbeats, secret love, us, youth
At their first meeting,
a questionnaire was all it took.
Song Xiyu remembered only two things:
the handwriting was nice,
and the name sounded good.
They sat together for three years.
The distance between their elbows
never exceeded ten centimeters.
Song Xiyu thought
the closest they would ever be should be more than that.
They met again at a class reunion.
They looked at each other in silence.
Once, they had talked about everything.
Now all that remained was, “Long time no see.”
I’ve loved you
from high school through college,
and all the way into the complicated world of adulthood.
I always have.
In the end,
the paper airplane came down,
youth came to an end,
and at last, the rain stopped.
