In the sophomore class of high school, Lin Xi, who had excellent grades, was assigned to sit at the same table as Lu Chuan. One wants to escape from his original family by studying, and the other uses basketball to escape the pressure of inheriting the family business. He taught her the three-step layup, and she helped him make up his English notes. They shared a bowl of spicy hotpot in the cafeteria and talked through the distance in the poetry column of the school magazine. In the winter of his senior year in high school, Lu Chuan started to have frequent nosebleeds, and he always carried the band-aid given to him by Lin Xi in his school uniform pocket.
Three months before the college entrance examination, Lu Chuan suddenly transferred schools. Only a note was left: "When the ginkgo trees in Beijing turn yellow, I will take you to eat candied haws." Lin Xi was admitted to the Chinese Department of Peking University, but there was no news about him. In her sophomore year, when she was sorting out old books, she found a CT diagnosis report falling out of the mezzanine of "The Collection of Flying Birds" - the date was the first semester of her senior year of high school, and the diagnosis was: advanced osteosarcoma. There was a line of pencil writing on the back of the report: "Lin Xi, math problems are so difficult, but I pretended to know them when I taught you. In fact, what I fear most is not death. It's that when you said, 'We will always be roommates,' I didn't take a second look at you."
And the text message she had saved for three years and was reluctant to delete was sent on the day of his cremation: "Lu Chuan, the ginkgo trees at Peking University are turning yellow."
