The day the college entrance exam results came out, Xu Wenwen felt like her life was over. She scored 391, not enough to get into even a decent vocational college. Meanwhile, Wan Kang, who sat at the back of the classroom and was always told by teachers that he “lacked ambition,” scored 538.
Everyone thought they were headed for completely different futures.
But Wan Kang made a decision no one could understand: he didn’t go to college. Instead, he stayed behind to retake the exam.
“Are you crazy?” Xu Wenwen asked him.
“I’m not crazy.” He handed her an ice-cold soda. “I just think studying by myself would be too boring.”
This isn’t a story about a top student saving a struggling student. It’s a romance about how “it’s okay to take things slowly.” When the whole world is urging you to run, there’s always someone willing to slow down and walk beside you along the less glamorous roads.
From retaking the exam to vocational college, from transferring to a university to earning a bachelor’s degree, from taking civil service exams to standing at the lectern. Seven years together, one journey toward each other.
They moved a little more slowly than everyone else at every step, but each step was firm.
