[Older Woman/Younger Man | Reunion After a Long Separation | Mutual Secret Crush | Rekindled Romance]
When Lu Shiyan was thirteen, he stood at the entrance to the alley and said to Su Nianwan, “Promise me, Jie.”
She said, “I promise I’ll come see you once a month, or every two months.”
Then she disappeared for four whole years.
When they met again, he was eighteen and she was twenty-four. At Grandma Lu’s funeral hall, the young man knelt ramrod straight, his eyes devoid of light.
“Who told you to come?”
“I got used to it a long time ago.”
Only then did Su Nianwan learn that throughout those four years, he had kept track of every day: from “Wanwan Jie, I like you best” to “It’s been two years. Has she forgotten me?”
It wasn’t that he no longer loved her. He just didn’t dare believe in her anymore.
“Su Nianwan, what you’re best at is lying to yourself.”
But the person she most wanted to deceive was the heart that had long since fallen for her little brother.
I spent four years learning how to run away, and a lifetime learning how to love you.
