As the years of entanglement passed, we became the people each other found hardest to appease.
At seventeen, Xu Nian had been secretly in love with the top student, Jiang Yu, for three years. All she dared to write in her anonymous letters was, “I saw you in the cafeteria again today.” She had no idea that the listener in the online confession box known as “7” was Jiang Yu himself. When her mother became gravely ill, Xu Nian left without saying goodbye, and the two hearts that had only just drawn close missed each other for seven years. When they meet again, he is the cold, distant CTO of a tech company, while she is an independent illustrator brave enough to pursue love. She thinks he has forgotten her. He thinks she will never come back. But that expired lemon candy will finally turn sweet again with time.
The tender ache of young love on campus, and the healing reunion after years apart
