Fifteen Years Hidden in the Wind

After fifteen years of secretly loving him, she never dared to say she loved him. But he had heard her long ago.

Lin Xia, a girl from a military compound, fell for someone when she was sixteen. She secretly kept the scraps of paper he had written on, searched for his name on library cards, and poured all her feelings into a military notebook she would never let anyone see. From high school to college, from the Gobi Desert in the northwest to a southwest outpost, she followed in his footsteps, becoming an aerospace engineer who could stand shoulder to shoulder with him.

She thought it was a one-sided pursuit. She had no idea that he kept every medicine she secretly left for him in his desk drawer, or that he carefully laminated every anonymous ginkgo-leaf bookmark she gave him. Even their “chance encounter” during military training had been his doing: he had used his position to arrange it. Lu Chen, the golden boy, had protected her in his own quiet, restrained way for fifteen whole years.

At an outpost 4,500 meters above sea level, the truth buried beneath the sandstorms was finally swept into the open. It turned out that this silent snowfall had never fallen on just one person.

When secret love becomes a mutual pursuit, and ten years of waiting culminate in the words “I love you too,” the confessions hidden in the wind finally reach the person who was meant to hear them.