[BE] [Youth] [Everyday Urban Life] [Short] [Fast-Paced]
For all three years of high school, Zhou Qing and Lu Yu sat together and called each other “enemies.” She was always nagging him to turn in his homework, and he was always complaining that she was too loud. Their only unspoken understanding was the carton of milk that appeared in her desk every day, and the school jacket he tossed her after basketball games. They thought dislike was the whole truth of youth.
Until, ten years later, at a classmate’s wedding, he handed her an umbrella: the very one she had lost back then.
Amid the sound of rain, she finally asked, “Why did you go north back then?”
He fell silent for a moment, then asked in return, “And you? Why did you choose the south?”
As it turned out, they had spent their entire youth carefully arranging a grand mutual missed connection. I raced toward sunny days without you, while you stayed forever in the rain where I was waiting for you.
