My Childhood Sweetheart Is a Marriage-Free Advocate

When my company held a five-year wish journal event, my mother was calling nonstop, pressuring me to get married.

"The kid next door, Old Wang's grandson, is already old enough to play with toy cars. Are you and Mu Yao ever going to get together?"

I picked up my pen and wrote: "Marry her."

In the same app, Mu Yao wrote: "Never get married."

Every year on her birthday, I gave her a ring. By the time I gave her the fifth, she finally couldn't take it anymore.

"We're just childhood friends, understand?"

I understood. So that very night, I destroyed the seven boxes of rings in my closet that I'd never managed to give her. But while cleaning out the childhood hideaway she treasured, I felt around and found a peachwood plaque carved with the words: "Today he said