In 1998, eighteen-year-old Zheng Rong entered K University’s military academy and met Cheng Qingyang, a young man standing beneath a plane tree.
He was calm, brilliant, and reserved, yet he gave her all his affection.
She was impulsive, stubborn, and lively. She knew nothing about love at first, but eventually learned how to pursue it.
They made it through military training, classes, competitions, and assignments together, and in the best years of their lives, they made plans for the future.
After graduation, he was posted to the Mianyang base, while she was assigned to Beijing.
Reality finally drove them apart.
Later, she married her childhood friend, only to slowly come to her senses in a suffocating marriage.
Later, he spent the lonely hours of the night guarding a number he didn’t dare call.
On May 12, 2008, an earthquake struck.
Her phone screen lit up, with eleven digits waiting on the call screen.
This time, she didn’t want to miss him again.
This is a story about youth at a military academy, rekindled love, a woman’s growth, and a longtime secret crush finally coming true.
Some people aren’t in your contacts, but they’re always in your bones.
The details are written very clearly, and the inner thoughts are described very subtly.