[From campus to the workplace + rekindled love + personal growth]
Yin Yi, reserved and shy, with a touch of insecurity, and Yan Shixu, a brilliant student who is just as shy
At sixteen, Yin Yi met Yan Shixu.
He was top of the grade, cool and aloof; she was an average student, quiet and timid.
She thought he would be just a passing figure in her life, but he stayed in her heart for fourteen years.
On the rooftop before the college entrance exams, he said, “When the exams are over, there’s something I want to tell you.”
On the beach during their graduation trip, he finally took her hand.
On nights apart, she told him over the phone that she missed him, and a thousand kilometers away, he said, “Me too.”
But eventually, they lost their way.
The thousand-kilometer distance and their different paces taught them what it meant to lose each other.
At least she still had her friends. Jiang Zhuo’s sharp tongue, Cheng Yan’s clear-eyed advice, and even the little cakes Jiang Zhuo and Xu Xu brought her helped her get through the hardest days.
They met again at twenty-six. He was the project’s technical lead, and she had grown into a project director.
This time, Yin Yi was no longer the little girl running after Yan Shixu. They met again at the top of their fields.
It was a reunion, a push and pull full of uncertainty, and a considered decision to fall in love again.
From school uniforms to wedding dresses, from sixteen to thirty.
Fourteen years had taught them that the best love isn’t a love without hardship. It’s when, after all the ups and downs, you’re still the one by my side for the rest of my life.
