In the autumn when he was twelve years old, Fang Yu was chosen for the first time.
Before that, he was the "unwanted child" in the first and second classes of the sixth middle school - his parents divorced when he was in kindergarten, his mother left, and his father was an alcoholic. He goes to school alone, eats alone, and waits for the rain to stop on a rainy day at the school gate. The seats are always in the last row against the wall, and the parents column on the registration form is blank. He was used to stacking books neatly, used to walk with his head lowered, and used to put all his expectations into the white washed old school bag.
Lin Zhixia was the first person to come to him.
No sympathy, no pity. She just said "I'll be with him" when no one chose him, she just quietly put a light blue umbrella and a bag of hot milk into his desk, she just stood in front of him when he was wrongfully accused of stealing money, and she just waited for him at the school gate on his birthday holding a strawberry cake she made by herself.
She taught him that someone would wait for him after school, someone would ask him "Are you willing", someone would say "I choose you".
Six years, from junior high school to high school, from the age of twelve to eighteen. A young man who was abandoned by his original family walked out of the gray fog little by little under the gentle gaze, learned to raise his head, learned to fight back, learned to embrace his belated father and brother, and learned to say goodbye calmly to the mother who abandoned him. He collected every loved moment into the last page of his math textbook - milk bag, name sticker, report card, ribbon on the cake. That was all his wealth and all his origins.
The night breeze prefers the girl waiting for him under the sycamore tree.
And what he prefers is the world where he is finally no longer an isolated island.
