[Sweet Romance · Reunited After a Breakup · Contract Couple · Face Blind Male Lead · Happy Ending · 1v1 · Both Pure]
Shen Yu'an has face blindness and can't remember anyone's face.
But he can pick Lin Xingyue out of a crowd at a glance, not with his eyes, but by the beating of his heart.
They meet again at the opening ceremony. He says only two words to her: "Excuse me." Then he posts a real-name statement on the campus forum: "We are indeed roommates. And our feelings are real."
Only later does Lin Xingyue learn that this aloof computer science prodigy is her roommate, and that his phone holds a folder called "YX," filled with every photo and chat between them from high school to the present. He started saving them the day they broke up and kept it up for two whole years. He even retrieved the blue bracelet she had thrown away and carried it with him for two years.
He proposes a relationship contract: "Pretend to be a couple for three months."
She thinks it's just a temporary solution. Only later does she realize that it was the heartfelt confession he'd spent two years gathering the courage to make.
During their year apart in different countries, he writes her a letter every day, numbered 001 to 365, without missing a single one. On the day she returns, he waits at the airport with letter number 365 in his hand. It has just one line: "I don't want to write letters anymore. I want to say it to your face."
Years later, beneath a ginkgo tree, he writes his last letter: "Ginkgo trees can live for two thousand years. I can't remember everyone's face, but I can remember yours. If one lifetime isn't enough, then I'll love you in the next."
On the back of the letter, she draws a ginkgo leaf, exactly like the one on letter 001 all those years ago.
"There's no need for another lifetime. The ginkgo-lined road is still here, and so are the ginkgo trees."
