In 1993, Su Xiaoran got lost while checking in as a new student and met Gu Yuan, who helped carry her luggage. She casually called him “Brother Gu Yuan,” and he smiled faintly and accepted the title.
Two years later, she became his junior at university.
Saving seats at the library, fixing her bike, tutoring her in English, bringing him water on the basketball court... She treated him like a big brother, while he kept her hair clip tucked away in his pencil case for two whole years.
Beneath the plane trees, he finally spoke. “Su Xiaoran, I like you. Ever since the first time you called me ‘Brother Gu Yuan.’”
She never imagined that the “Brother Gu Yuan” she called back then would remain hers for a lifetime.
He had never planned to be just her brother in the first place.
An era when it was embarrassing to hold hands [laughing and crying]