[Political family / Class divide / Neither is the other's first / Age gap]
Thinking back to their first meeting in 2010, it felt like the first stirrings of young love. Lin Man secretly watched Shen Yuche from behind at the temple.
She thought they would never meet again, but after Lin Man got into a university in Beijing, she ran into Shen Yuche at a volunteer event where he was visiting an elderly professor.
Love at first sight, and even deeper the second time.
“My life has been utterly ordinary. With my hands pressed together, I can only pray to Buddha to watch over you, so young and adrift in this world, in my place.”
“I put the Maitreya pendant I gave you around your neck with my own hands. Beneath the fireworks in Xingang, I prayed to Buddha for your safety and a bright future.”
