Forgetting This Autumn Day

When she first meets Chen Shize, she is sixteen. After her father’s death and her mother’s abandonment, she lies on her classroom desk, crying in secret, when he happens upon her.

A candy appears out of nowhere, interrupting her sorrow.

“Everything will be all right.”

An Zhiqiu looks up and sees a boy. He carries his bag in one hand, his phoenix eyes proud and cool, his tall figure straight as jade, yet he has a rare warmth about him.

She knows him. He’s the boy who often competes with her for first place in their grade, the aloof heartthrob everyone talks about.

An Zhiqiu stops crying and stares at his retreating figure. The light falls on him, casting a shadow.

She unwraps the candy and puts it in her mouth. The sweetness of strawberry fills her mouth, washing away the sadness she felt moments ago.

The boy’s image is etched into her mind, stirring feelings she has never known before.

After that, she can’t help secretly keeping an eye on him. He enters a competition, wins an award, plays basketball, works on problems…

It’s like drinking fizzy orange soda, leaving her heart filled with a sweet-and-sour feeling.

[If youth were a book, then for those with secret crushes, every page would be filled with someone’s retreating figure.]

Sensitive girl x aloof heartthrob

In this lonely autumn, none of them find a perfect ending.