Chan on the Seventeenth Day

In their second year of high school, Lin Zhixia became the desk mate of Jiang Yu, a transfer student.

He was the top student in the grade, year after year. She was an ordinary girl who had fought with all her might just to make the top ten.

She secretly wrote his name in the corner of her desk, then quietly erased it on the eve of graduation.

Three days before the gaokao, a misunderstanding drove them apart in the rain.

She tore up the confession letter she had spent three years preparing. He watched in silence as she walked away.

Seven years later, she was a celebrated author, and he had become a rising star in tech.

When they met again at a class reunion, she finally learned that the gift he had never given her, left in his drawer all those years ago, was inscribed: “For Zhixia: My light.”

And memories of Gu Chen and Shen Qinghe, as well as Su Man and Ji Chenguang, slowly resurfaced with the passage of time...