I Really Did Like You Back Then

The you I liked leaned against the classroom door. The you I liked smiled in a shaft of sunlight. Wherever I looked, you were by my side, and beneath the setting sun, we said goodbye.

Years later, a Maybach pulls up at the school gates. Its owner watches the bustling students and thinks back to the old days.

At last, he spots the person he came to see. When she reaches a quiet place, he gets out and blocks her path, his icy tone chilling her to the bone.

“What, Xu Ting? Have you forgotten your old deskmate? You’re marrying that so-called top student, Yan Chen?”