In the last summer of her senior year in high school, Shen Qingzhi saw Chen Chi, a freshman in high school, on the sidelines of the basketball court. The white No. 14 Jersey, when she took off, was like picking up a handful of the cleanest sunshine - just one glance was enough to illuminate her seventeenth year of chaos.
He is a radiant sports student on the court, and a "scumbag" with bright red spots on the science test paper; she is a cheerful and hard-working senior who has a headache in math, and she is also the problem solver on his mobile phone who is "available to ask questions at any time." From the dusk in the library to the starlight behind the screen on winter nights, from the street lights outside the milk tea shop to the photos on the mountain tops on New Year's Eve, the most secret thoughts of youth are hidden in the shallow intersections.
However, the countdown to the college entrance examination never stops. When he noticed the unspoken expectation in her eyes, the first thing he thought of was the clear time difference between the future she was about to run into and the high school years he had just begun. Some encounters are destined to happen at the wrong time.
"The evening breeze is not as bright as you" - Shen Qingzhi finally wrote in her diary. The evening breeze is gentle, but it cannot catch up with the sun that is destined to hang high; she is very good, and he is also good, but their story just stopped before "I liked you".
This is a story about "meeting the right person at the wrong time". It is the regret that reason overwhelms heartbeat, it is the tenderness that is more precious than letting go, it is the grand but silent one-man show in youth. I hope that everyone who has experienced "almost" can find their own quiet resonance in this book.
