Two people who had a mutual crush spent twelve years learning to get closer and another ten years practicing leaving.
He was her deskmate in elementary school, helping her sharpen pencils and standing in front of her. She started keeping a diary when she was in junior high school, and his name was on every page. In high school, she saw him walking out of the classroom with the school beauty and chose silence. The university separated the two cities, and she said to herself: Forget it.
Ten years after graduation, we reunited at the class reunion. He stood in front of her, wearing a suit and leather shoes. He was no longer the boy he was then, but he asked exactly the same words as when he was six years old -
"Lin Xiaoyu, are you still there?
"She's always there.
