Unsent Letter

[Youth Campus + BE + Regret + Growth + Nostalgia + Secret Love] [Li Zhi x Jiang Yubai] [High school girl with strong internal drive vs top academic Bai Yueguang] In the late summer of my sophomore year in high school, the air was sticky and hot, and the cicadas chirped feebly. Li Zhi was dragged by his best friend Ling Zhixi to meet Jiang Yubai, the legendary top student who surpassed the Qingbei Line by several dozen points. She thought that such a powerful person would be an out-of-reach star, until she opened the door covered with roses—— He sat in the warm yellow light, twisting a piece of orange between his fingertips. When he raised his eyes, his amber pupils were filled with the unfaded summer light. At that moment, her heart skipped a beat. Thus, Li Zhi's entire youth began to secretly pursue him. She studied like crazy just to catch up with him. She thought that when she was good enough, she would have the courage to stand in front of him and hand over the letter that he had written and revised. But when Li Zhi finally holds the ticket to Qingbei, he is about to cross the ocean and rush to a future thousands of miles away. At that last KTV party, he sang a song "After I Leave". In the noisy corner, she couldn't say "I like you" after all. Later, Li Zhi walked along the ginkgo path he walked countless times, but could no longer wait for the boy in the white shirt. Later, I heard that he had won a gold medal, that he was staying abroad, and that... He was getting engaged. The letter hidden in the deepest part of the drawer with a small orange sticker was eventually turned into unknown fragments amidst the hum of the shredder along with her turbulent youth. Many years later, Li Zhi met him again at his best friend's brother's wedding. Standing next to him was his gentle wife, holding a lovely baby in her arms, and her smile contained a perfection that I had never seen before, belonging to the world. Li Zhi raised his glass and said silently to him across the crowd: "Goodbye, Senior Jiang." "Goodbye, that orange-flavored summer." "Goodbye, my unsent letter." "Goodbye, I have secretly liked you throughout my youth."