Memories of the Wutong Tree

[Youthful Campus Romance | Reunion After Years Apart | Healing Old Regrets | Growing Together]

Huo Lin × Chen Xi

On a summer night in their second year of high school, he played marksman and she played support, while the earphones carried all the secrets of their youth.

She smiled and said, “Huo Lin, you’re sure to succeed someday.”

His ears turned red as he hid the draft paper covered in her name in his schoolbag.

Back then, the moonlight was gentle and the evening breeze was soft. They thought they could walk side by side for a long, long way.

A sudden illness, a breakup neither of them could prevent, and two years without a word.

He failed the college entrance exams and repeated his final year, burying his longing in exam papers and keeping her in his heart.

She missed school because of her illness and bore everything alone, without even getting the chance to say goodbye.

He deleted the game and changed his number, thinking he could cut ties with the past.

Then, late one night after the college entrance exams, a gray profile picture suddenly lit up

Two years of silence, ended in a single moment.

In that instant, all the hurt, longing, and guilt crumbled away.

He had never forgotten her, and she had never been lost to him.

The deepest regret of youth, it turned out, could at last be gently laid to rest by time.

Later, he asked, “Why didn’t you tell me back then?”

She answered softly, “I didn’t want you to stop moving forward because of me.”

“I hope you’re well.”

“You too.”

The leaves of the parasol trees fell, and an old dream came true again.

The girl who had dazzled him throughout his youth finally returned to his side in the gentlest way.