The six years of elementary school were a pure, carefree corner of the world that Liang Peng and Yu Siyan shared.
During those three years of middle school, their relationship took its first turn: they were rivals, chasing each other up the grades.
Then came the second: they became allies, perfectly in sync during academic competitions.
So what would the third be?
When Yu Siyan could catch Liang Peng's most obscure physics jokes, and Liang Peng could understand the profound meaning hidden in Yu Siyan's poems, a feeling beyond friendship became unmistakable amid the clash of their brilliant minds. Everyone thought they were the "perfect partners." Only they knew that every academic rivalry and moment of understanding was pushing them toward an answer no one else could see: a truth about affection, the future, and you, so knowledgeable and radiant.
By high school, he circled her seasons like a great bird, while she mistook his steadfast devotion for part of the scenery. Only when a blizzard swept away the illusion did she understand, amid the desolation, that the warmth she had squandered was called love. So she spent an entire year learning how to call back a bird she had once frightened away.
