The day Su Wantang added her long-time crush Lu Huaizhou on WeChat, she was so excited that she rolled three and a half times on the bed. However, her roommate's words made her smile freeze - "He has a girlfriend."
She didn't cry or make a fuss, and applied for an exchange student in the UK the next day. On the day she got the offer, she posted a message on WeChat Moments: Let's go. Lu Huaizhou was the first to like it. She looked at the little love and logged out of WeChat.
It rains a lot in Manchester, and Su Wantang learned not to hold an umbrella. In the past two years, she has turned the map of Europe into a check-in list - coffee in Paris, snowy mountains in Switzerland, Christmas markets in Prague, and the Aurora in Iceland. She smiles brightly in every photo, as if that night when she buried her face in the pillow never existed.
On her first day of working in Shanghai after returning to China, she turned around in the tea room and saw Lu Huaizhou standing behind her holding a cup of coffee.
"It's really you." He smiled.
Her first reaction was to look behind him.
Later she found out that he broke up with her not long after she went to England. He spent half a year chasing her back, lattes, overtime nights, and sunrises on the Bund. Until one day, a message lit up on his phone - "Huaizhou, I'm back in China, would you like to meet me?"
Su Wantang quietly packed her luggage, booked a flight to Paris, and blocked all his contact information.
Lu Huaizhou sat at the door of her empty rental house, then stood up and booked the latest flight to Paris. He went through every social update of hers over the past two years and found her at sunset in Montmartre.
"Every place you've collected," he said, "I want to go with you."
Reader comments
The author is very familiar with the tourist destination, and the relationship between the male and female protagonists is delicate and sincere.
That's great, I recommend it. It's so well written.
The author is very familiar with the tourist destination, and the relationship between the male and female protagonists is delicate and sincere.
That's great, I recommend it. It's so well written.