Heaven’s Clouds and Sea

I’ve liked Qiao Haichuan ever since our first year of high school, but I was too timid to tell him how I felt.

After graduation, Qiao Haichuan and I went to the same university. There, we met our best friends, Xu Sijie and Song Chaoyang, as well as an upperclassman named Chi Yu.

Even in college, I kept my crush on Qiao Haichuan to myself. Because of a misunderstanding, I thought this unforgettable secret love would end in disappointment. But the passionate crush of youth wasn’t one-sided: it turned out Qiao Haichuan and I had both been quietly in love with each other.

Upperclassman Chi Yu’s sudden confession gave Qiao Haichuan and me a chance to clear up the misunderstanding, and at last our love came true.

We promised never to part, but a beautiful relationship has to be built on respect for each other’s dreams. On graduation day, Qiao Haichuan enlisted in the military, and we ended up living far apart. I told him, “Wherever you are, I’ll always love you!”

The seasons changed, and we made it through the difficult years apart. With both our parents there to witness it, Qiao Haichuan proposed, and I was finally going to marry him.

But fate had other plans. Heaven played a cruel joke on me, and I never got to wait for Qiao Haichuan to put the wedding ring on my finger himself...