The summer of 2012 was long, long enough for a spark of love to take root, and for an entire youth to die away forever.
After the college entrance exams, Xu Zhixia was locked in a car and taken far from home. Their tokens were destroyed, and she couldn't even say goodbye.
Under the blazing sun and pounding rain, Ye Ci waited in vain for three days and three nights without food or water, battered and injured. In the end, he tore apart the words he'd carved into the bleachers with his own hands.
For years afterward
She lived the life her parents had arranged for her, hiding an old photograph and returning to the old sports field every year to wait for someone who would never come.
He drifted through the lowest rungs of society in the south, doing the hardest work, sick and in pain, never marrying and never daring to look back.
In 2020, they passed each other in a small town. He saw her from afar, said nothing, and walked away, never to return for the rest of his life.
Meeting was the end; one moment of love became a lifetime.
For the rest of my life, I'll only remember you. We will never meet again.
