Adorable, sweet fairy girl x aloof deskmate
They first met in their second year of high school. Lu Ciyan was tall and always wore a clean white shirt. When he bent over his exercises, his eyelashes cast faint shadows beneath his eyes, and even the way he held his pen had a crisp, assured quality.
Wen Yining was bad at physics, so she always used asking questions as an excuse to sneak glances at him. He didn’t say much when explaining problems, but he always got straight to the point. Sometimes, when she left him exasperated with her cluelessness, he would gently tap her workbook, the hint of an unspoken smile on his lips. She would hand him a bottle of water with the cap already loosened after he played basketball, and slip him a note with the answers when the teacher called on him. He would gently nudge her awake when she started to nod off, and quietly take the bucket she couldn’t carry during a cleanup.
The feelings hidden in those little moments were like sprouts quietly emerging in spring. She wrote “Lu Ciyan” countless times in her diary, while he had sketched her bent over her writing on the back of his scratch paper. But until the end of the college entrance exams, when the cicadas’ cries began to fade, neither of them dared to say, “I like you.”
They went to different universities, and after graduation they had no contact at all. Then, at a class reunion, Lu Ciyan walked Wen Yining home. He stood downstairs for a long time before finally saying, “Actually, back in our second year of high school, I drew on your scratch paper. I just didn’t dare show you.”
Wen Yining’s heart skipped a beat. She looked up and met his earnest gaze, then whispered, “My diary is full of your name.”
The evening breeze carried the warmth of late summer. It turned out that some feelings could travel through the long years and across mountains and seas, arriving right on time years later.
