An Old Letter Bound for the Boat at Dusk

In their second year of high school, Song Yanzhou was a fallen prodigy turned wayward boy.

Wrongfully accused and faced with a sudden change in his family's fortunes, he gave up on himself, drifting through life in numb indifference and letting others criticize and curse him.

At the time, Su Yu was the quietest, most well-behaved girl in the class next door.

Everyone avoided him, hated him, and watched him fall. She was the only one who couldn't bear it and secretly wrote him a letter in an anime-themed envelope.

Her handwriting was gentle, her words restrained. She told him: You deserve to shine again.

No one knew about this act of salvation, and she buried her secret crush deep in her heart.

She had someone deliver the letter anonymously, asking for no reply and expecting nothing in return. She kept that love to herself throughout her youth.

Later, they ended up in the same class, then reunited at university.

They weathered the awkward stage and fell passionately in love, promising each other forever at the top of a Ferris wheel. But in the end, they fell victim to misunderstandings from their youth and old wounds that never healed.

One absurd rift drove them apart, scattering them into the crowd and cutting off all contact for four years.

Six years later, they meet again in Xingcheng, living right next door to each other.

Song Yanzhou has returned with a plan, moving into the apartment across from hers and patiently working his way into her heart.

At a class reunion, old memories resurface, and a long-buried secret is accidentally revealed.

Late one night, he holds her close, his fingertips grazing the tips of her flushed ears. With a low, teasing laugh, he kisses her and presses her for an answer:

“Su Yu, were you the one who secretly wrote me that letter in our second year of high school?”

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It turned out that the light that pulled him from the abyss had always been the person he had missed for an entire youth.