When he was 8 years old, Wen Yanqiu made Xian Qinghe cry.
He paid for a piece of watermelon, wrapped it in oil paper, with a crooked note on it: "I'm sorry."
That was the first time they met.
At the age of 18, Wen Yanqiu avoided Xian Qinghe.
He got an offer from a prestigious foreign school, but he didn't dare to tell the person who always fell asleep on his desk.
On the eve of farewell, Qinghe asked him with red eyes: "Do you want to leave yourself, or do your parents ask you to leave?"
He fell silent.
At the airport security checkpoint, he didn't look back. The person behind him waited for ten seconds, but didn't wait.
At the age of 28, Wen Yanqiu moved toward leisure and peace.
The reunion was in the conference room. Qinghe is a jewelry designer, with silver powder stuck between his fingernails and tired eyes.
Yanqiu looked at the instant noodles in his hand and finally said the words he had hidden for ten years:
"This time, it's me chasing you."
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Xian Qinghe has designed many works, and the most famous brooch is called "Yu".
The two pieces of metal overlap each other, like passing each other, and like a person finally looking back.
No one knows that this is what he has been waiting for for ten years.
Later that person really came back.
With a piece of watermelon and a late answer:
"It wasn't that I didn't want to stay, it was just that I didn't know. It turns out I had a choice."
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This is a story about three encounters.
It is also a story about a person learning to live for himself.
