On the first day after Lin Luxi was admitted to Qing'an University, she bumped into Shen Yanchu, the senior student of the law department who was rumored to "keep away from strangers". He was the top scorer in the college entrance examination, the flower of the mountains, a distant existence that she thought she would never meet in this life.
But after school started, she gradually discovered that - he was in the next classroom during club activities; he always sat across from her in the library; when it rained she didn't bring an umbrella, his umbrella would always appear in time; he remembered the taste of milk tea that she casually mentioned better than she did. Everyone said that Shen Yanchu liked her, but Lin Luxi didn't believe it. How could he like her being so transparent?
Until she noticed the old faded red string around his wrist.
Until she opened old photos of her childhood.
Until she remembered - seven years ago in the summer, she rescued a drowning boy by a river in the countryside. The boy grabbed the red rope she dropped before he passed out. That young man is Shen Yanchu.
He had been looking for her for seven years, but she had completely forgotten about him. So he started a long "recognition" plan - saying nothing, just silently appearing beside her, reminding her in every subtle way: You saved me that summer.
But she doesn't remember. She only remembered that the red rope was very old, but he never took it off.
She asked him why he kept wearing it, and he was silent for a long time and said, "I'm waiting for someone. After waiting for seven years, she forgot about me." She asked who that person was, and he looked at her and said, "It's you."
She saved him seven years ago, but forgot about him; seven years later, he came back, and finally waited until she remembered him.
From forgetting to remembering, from missing to reuniting, she