Yo-Yos and Preserved Plums

The daughter of the neighborhood mahjong parlor owner × the son of the scholarly family living upstairs from the parlor [Regret and fulfillment, two sides of the same coin]

“I hope that on the night the fireworks light up the whole country, the grandest night of all, we’ll spend every one of those nights together from then on.”

If she had known, perhaps they should have been together long before Li Lan and Yao Ying.

She said she wasn’t wavering. She said she was fine on her own. He believed her, so he spent the rest of his life holding on to those memories until he passed away, while she went on to start a family of her own early on.

Neither of them put love first. Neither of them had enough luck. And neither of them was brave enough.

Chen Yeqing had fallen for her early, was slow to realize it, and eventually found the courage to act, only to retreat afterward. He would rather suffer alone than find the courage to change things again.

Tong Jianian seemed clearheaded, guarding his feelings for one person and insisting love was different from friendship, yet he was still won over by how touched he felt.

Liking someone and being in love are different. For some people, taking that step takes far too much courage.

Yao Ying said, “The funny thing is, people who don’t like each other can get together so easily, while people who do like each other haven’t managed to get together even after all these years.”