At seventeen, he was the cool, dazzling top student, and she was his sensitive desk mate who longed for love.
He gave her all his tenderness and promised they would go to college in the same city, but after the entrance exams, he turned away without hesitation: “I'm tired of you. Don't bother me again.”
Clutching her shattered heart, she struggled through seven years alone.
Seven years later, they meet again. He's now the decisive and ruthless Mr. Shen, yet he blocks her in a hallway with red-rimmed eyes:
“Back then, it wasn't that I didn't love you. I was afraid to. I left to keep you safe, and spent seven years fighting to become stronger, all so I could come back and tell you: I never stopped wanting you.”
It turns out that the cruel farewell was the deep love he'd hidden for seven years.
It turns out that the boy she loved had never gone far.
From school uniforms to wedding dresses, from missed chances to a life together, you were my first love, and you'll be my home for the rest of my life.
