When Shen Nian was fifteen years old, a boy caught a flying ball on the basketball court, and he also caught the heartbeat of the next ten years.
He drank the strawberry milk she secretly put in every morning, he put a scarf around her neck on snowy nights, and he hid the words "I like you" in pencil on the postcard after the college entrance examination - you have to look at it sideways to see it.
But before she had time to see it, she flew to the other side of the ocean.
When we met again seven years later, he asked: "There is another line on the back of the postcard. Have you read it?"
She froze in place, unable to cry or laugh.
It turns out that there is only a "squinting" distance between them.
