Wen Zhidong did not expect to meet Lin Wantang at the health care center.
Thirteen years ago, she was his first love. She suddenly disappeared in the summer before the college entrance examination, without even a farewell. Thirteen years later, he is a hospice nurse, witnessing life and death every day; she is an architectural designer, accompanying her mother with Alzheimer's disease.
The reunion came unexpectedly. There was also the ginkgo leaf bookmark hanging on her bag, and he recognized it at a glance.
But they are no longer the same people they used to be. He is used to wrapping emotions with reason, while she hides all her softness in her work. And death is flowing slowly in this space - his patients are leaving one by one, and her mother is forgetting day by day.
Until her mother shouted "Xiaodong" in confusion, until he discovered the truth that he missed back then, until a seven-year-old little girl licked the ice cream and said, "You must be good after I leave."
It turns out that some people never need to think of it because they have never forgotten it.
