A blind date brings her face-to-face with the deepest regret of her youth.
Su Wan never imagined she would see Shen Zhi again at such a conventional, arranged meeting. The boy who once illuminated the shadowy years of her adolescence now sits in a café, dressed in a sharp suit amid patches of dappled light. He is still as handsome as ever, yet carries an unfamiliar air of distance. The bitter aroma of coffee hangs in the air, along with seven years of silence and unanswered questions.
In high school, he was the star of the basketball court and a top student. His name was the one she didn’t dare write aloud in her diary. She gave everything she had just to stand beside him, cherishing every chance encounter as a gift and turning his fleeting, thoughtless glances into the fuel that carried her through countless nights of study. She thought he was destined for a top engineering school in the north, a future with him that she spent her entire youth striving to reach.
Shen Zhi never expected that the “ideal match” his mother had so enthusiastically recommended would be Su Wan. The girl who always sat quietly by the window, with her gentle profile and clear, amber eyes. Countless times, as she bent over her calculations, he had let his gaze drift across her trembling lashes. When her essay was read aloud, a secret pride had stirred in his heart. He had even turned down options within easy reach and wagered everything by changing his college application, all to pursue a future with her that he had imagined for himself.
