[Campus+anonymous letter+secret love+BE+time span]
[Shen Zhiyi × Gu Yanzhi] [The gentle and stubborn high school girl who is used to hiding her sadness VS the silent and rational first grader who cannot express feelings]
In the winter of his sophomore year in high school, Shen Zhiyi stuffed an anonymous letter into Gu Yanzhi's textbook. She wrote: "Did you know that there is light in winter?" He replied with only one word: "I know."
She didn't know who he was, and he didn't know who she was. They talked like this with pen and paper all winter long. She wrote "I seem to like you a little bit" and he wrote "I'm waiting for you". She hides a secret - hereditary heart disease, which she has not told anyone since the day she was diagnosed in her freshman year of high school.
She stood in front of him on graduation day, too nervous to speak. He looked at her for a long time and said, "I know it's you." They were together that summer. She drew many pictures of him, and he learned to laugh for the first time. She didn't tell him about her illness.
While away at university, her condition got worse and worse. That winter, he rushed to the hospital overnight. She woke up and said, "Why are you here?" He didn't answer, just held her hand. She said, "I'm sorry, I lied to you." He said, "You didn't lie to me. You just didn't say it."
She walked away in his arms, with snow falling outside the window. The last sentence is: "Winter doesn't seem to be so difficult anymore."
Many years later, he got married and had a daughter whose name had the word "Nian" in it. He took his daughter to the cemetery, where the tombstone read: "You were here, like the light of winter."
She said that there is light in winter too. She is that light now.
