How Do I Tell You That You’re My Greatest Regret?

This story draws on the real experiences of countless college graduates who broke up as soon as they left school. It portrays the tender romances torn apart by fierce competition for jobs and the weight of family expectations, every word striking at the regrets that haunt new graduates.

At a campus recruitment talk, Su Wan and Lu Yu fell for each other at first sight. They made it through their college days side by side, lived together, and promised to build a life in the same city. Kissing beneath warm lamplight and whispering in the evening breeze, they thought their passionate love could overcome anything. But after job hunting across the city brought nothing but rejection and their savings ran out, their elders pressured them at every turn to return to their hometown and pursue secure government jobs. In the end, the love that had once burned so brightly lost to the harsh reality that they had nowhere to settle.

During the painful years they spent apart, preparing for exams, they secretly traveled to the old city twice to steal a little time together. But each brief reunion only made the pain of parting worse. Eight years later, they met again at a class reunion. Both had already settled into marriages of convenience. Only after all the misunderstandings from the past were cleared up did they realize that neither had ever let go.

They loved each other when they were young but could not stay together. After meeting again years later, there was no way back. The words they had kept in their hearts for a lifetime could only remain unspoken: My one regret, from beginning to end, has always been you.