In his senior year of high school, Lin Qiao left the house forty minutes early every day and walked through most of the city just to say "by the way" to Shen Yu. She brought breakfast for him for a year, and wrote on the eighty-seventh page of the draft paper, "On October 17th, he told it three times." He never asked her where her home was. Seven years later, Shen Yu found an old photo on the train. There is a line of crossed out text on the back of the photo. He looked at the light for a long time. He recognized those two words - they were his own name. But when he arrived in her city, she was no longer on that road.
