He Outlasts the Years

After the college entrance exams, Xu Wang couldn’t find Lin Nanyi anymore.

No one had heard from her. She vanished without a trace, as if she’d disappeared off the face of the earth.

Years later, Lin Nanyi showed up at a class reunion. She seemed unchanged, still kind to everyone, yet she didn’t spare a glance for Xu Wang, silent among the crowd.

Her calm, carefree demeanor left everyone there sighing with emotion.

Everyone knew Xu Wang had waited for her all these years.

At last, someone pointed at her and shouted, “You can’t just disappear without a word! If you didn’t like him anymore, would it have killed you to break up with him? What gave you the right to make my brother Xu wait for you all these years?”

Lin Nanyi said, “We were never together. Not once.”

Lin Nanyi said, “I never liked Xu Wang, either.”

To her, all those years and all that youthful love meant nothing. Xu Wang said nothing, but his heart was in unbearable pain.

On her way home, Lin Nanyi was stopped. The man before her stood there in silence, his eyes red, as if questioning and judging her, stripping away her composure with one piercing look after another.

She simply said, “Xu Wang, you could never be the one I choose, because you can’t give me the life I want.”

Xu Wang looked at her with difficulty, utterly humble. “Wait for me. Give me five years, and I’ll give you everything you want. Please, wait for me…”

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Lin Nanyi once thought she was a moon high above the world, unwilling to be touched by earthly dust. Much later, she realized that Xu Wang was the sun she could see but never reach.

She waited a long, long time,

just for the sun that shone on her.

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Time may stretch on endlessly, but it is worth the wait.

Because he lasts longer than time itself.