At sixteen, An Ruoxi saw the name “Lin Yi” for the first time on the red class-placement notice at Jiangcheng No. 1 High School.
One was like summer, the other like autumn. One was passionate and flamboyant, the other silent and inscrutable. From brushing shoulders in high school corridors to pining for each other across the country in college, from clashing over careers and dreams to finding their way back to each other two years after breaking up, it took them a full fifteen years to learn how to love each other well.
This is more than a love story.
Here are the choices of academic track, the late-night lights during the countdown to the college entrance exams, the spirited days in university clubs, and the bumpy growth of newcomers in the workplace. And here is Gu Fei, the best of friends, who witnessed a long, unrequited love and went on to become his own guiding light.
From youthful school uniforms to wedding gowns, from soy milk and fried dough sticks in the cafeteria to late-night offices in Lujiazui, from failing to understand one another to shouting matches and then tender embraces:
“Time is a great river, and we are all travelers aboard the same boat. Thankfully, you’re still by my side in the end.”
