The shocking glimpse of the first-month high school entrance examination made Yan Le from Class 16 and rigor from Class 17 become the most steadfast coordinates of each other's youth.
They are names that are always next to each other on the grade list, and they are figures who pretend to meet in the corridor between classes - he is going to Wuhan University to study computer science, and she is going to Huake to study management. Under the dim light of the evening self-study, there was a promise they secretly made: after the college entrance examination, they would be together openly.
But fate has to tear a crack. On the day the college entrance examination results were released, Yan Le's score was not up to Huake's threshold. She rigorously holds the transcript that will guarantee her admission to Wuhan University, but with red eyes she says, "I will go to whichever school you fill in."
The obstruction from my family and the persuasion from my teachers came like a tide. Seeing the rigor of giving up his dream for himself, Yan Le gritted his teeth and wrapped all his heartbeats into lies: "I made up the 'three-year agreement' casually. I have never liked you."
The veins in his hand holding the volunteer watch popped out, and the light in his eyes was completely extinguished. Later, he went to Wuhan and she went to Tianjin. The two cities were more than a thousand kilometers away, and all contact was severed.
It wasn't until they reunited by the Wuhan River many years later that Yan Jin found a letter among his old things that had never been sent - it was written to Yan Le at Wuhan University on the day he received the admission notice from Tianjin University. The last line, "I love you," was wrinkly with tears.
It turns out that the transformation back then was all accomplished out of necessity; it turns out that the name hidden on the last page of the draft book was never the secret of a single arrow.
This time, I changed my rigor to cross mountains and seas. He wanted to make up for the missed time and say the "I love you" that was let down to her again.
