[Powerful CEO + Childhood Friends + Mutual Secret Crush and First Love + Both Pursue Each Other]
In the blink of an eye, I’m already ninety. Autumn has arrived in Vancouver, and the maple leaves outside have turned red. Lately, I’ve been feeling so sleepy, and I keep dreaming about people and things from the past...
In a daze, I seem to see the boy who used to smile foolishly at me. I’m back at our old school, back in that classroom, and he’s sitting beside me...
The bell rings. When our Chinese teacher asks the class to read the passage “The Little Girl with Pigtails” aloud, my deskmate, Shen Lingyu, nicknamed “the Schoolyard Tyrant,” points at me with a flourish and reads, “You, the little girl with pigtails!” My face instantly turns scarlet. Seeing how excited Shen Lingyu is, our Chinese teacher teases him: “Shen Lingyu is really excited, huh? He’s pointing at his deskmate and calling her a little girl with pigtails. Look how happy he is! What an expressive performance! Everyone should learn from Lingyu and read with as much feeling as he does!”
The whole class bursts out laughing, and I giggle along. Shen Lingyu, meanwhile, just wants to find a hole in the ground to crawl into...
Years later, we meet again at a class reunion. We don’t say much. A sudden downpour starts, and he “happens to be going that way,” so he gives Li Sijia and me a ride home. He also asks for my WeChat.
Then one day, Li Sijia tells me that Shen Lingyu has a “fiancée”…
