In the last quarter of December, ginkgo trees were all over the campus. Wei Ziqi hid a pair of plain silver rings deep in his heart. At the end of the semester, he and Liu Shuyu finalized a tender confession.
What followed was a brief love affair, followed by a long winter vacation spanning hundreds of kilometers.
She lived alone in a huge empty house all year round, surviving the long and lonely winter; he returned early without telling everyone, quietly settled in his cousin's rental house, and planned an elaborate surprise.
During the days of separation, the two relied on fixed videos at 10 o'clock every night to maintain their longing, shared scraps of meals, shared cloud movies, and tested their feelings through emoticons.
From the surprise meeting where he deliberately pretended to be a deliveryman, to the measured pull of staying on the sofa, to the childish warning line drawn by the quilt on the bed, the "YOU" boundary of "keep" was slowly removed.
They spent the winter vacation running together day and night, applying the same facial mask, sharing a set of body care, playing pranks and playing tricks on each other, and soaked in love in the smoke.
When the cold winter comes to an end, the new semester has arrived as promised.
He trimmed his hair neatly, and she dyed her hair red with a fiery rose. The greenness of the holidays faded away, and they reunited under the ginkgo tree on campus in the spring.
A slow-burning secret love that started at the end of the term and survived the cold winter in a different place, slowly fell into love day and night, and the rest of my life was like day and night.
