Amid the cicadas' chorus at seventeen, Shen Tinglan was dragged into the back seat of a car before Jiang Jinyue knew what was happening. The dust kicked up blurred the red in the young man's eyes. In the early summer of that year, their childhood friendship ended without even a single "goodbye."
Ten years passed. Jiang Jinyue had become a designer who could hold her own at work, and she thought time had long since worn away the stirrings of her youth. Then, late one night as she worked overtime, she ran into a pair of familiar eyes at the convenience store beneath her office building. Holding a carton of warm milk, Shen Tinglan spoke softly, just as he had so many times while waiting for her after school: "Long time no see."
Through all the years they were apart, he never stopped searching for her. After they reunited, she gradually let down her guard. The longing distance had kept them from sharing, the understanding time had buried, all slowly awakened as they tested the waters and drew closer, again and again.
In the end, the evening breeze would bring a message, even if it came late. And childhood friends were never the end of the story, but the prologue to crossing mountains and seas, just to spend the rest of their lives together.
