Six years ago, Yu Shuyao moved away.
Lin Yichen clutched her little suitcase and crouched in the hallway, crying until sunset. Before she left, she gave him a little panda plushie. He’d held on to it for six whole years without ever letting go.
As a child, Lin Yichen had been especially attached to Yu Shuyao.
He insisted on napping beside her, and whenever she leaned against someone else, he’d tearfully protest.
She was the little girl he’d held dear and been fixated on throughout his childhood.
After six years apart, he thought he’d never see her again.
On the first day of junior high military training, beneath the blazing sun,
a girl in a white dress hurried in late to the sound of the whistle. She walked straight up to him and pressed a mung bean popsicle into his palm, smiling with crescent-shaped eyes. “Lin Yichen, see you in a bit.”
The familiar voice sent his heart into a spin. After six years, he didn’t even recognize the face he’d thought about day and night.
It wasn’t until he opened the door that evening and saw the girl sitting quietly in his living room that he suddenly realized:
His childhood sweetheart, the girl he’d waited six years for, had come back on her own.
The shy, bashful math class representative Lin Yichen and the quirky English class representative Yu Shuyao became desk mates on the very first day of school.
Their friend Xu Heng was there too, a cool, short-haired girl who was constantly mistaken for a boy by the whole class.
The three spent every day together, walking to and from school as a group.
The secret love he’d kept bottled up for six years finally came to fruition on a summer campus.
Sweet from start to finish, with no angst, and a love that goes both ways.
