When she was seventeen years old, someone kissed her on the cheek during lunch break. She thought that was the beginning, but later she realized that it was the whole story.
Lin Zhixia and Xu Jiashu were classmates in high school. Although he is usually aloof and talkative, sometimes he is considerate and shields her from the sun and helps her stand up. The seventeen-year-old likes to say "it's so annoying", but in his heart he puts the note he wrote casually into the textbook.
Later, he suddenly transferred schools without saying goodbye. She looked through his social media, wanting to know some information, and accidentally found out about the school he might attend, which became her obsession. She bet her future to lower her grades, go to the same university as him, and look forward to finding him in a new city. But on the day they reunited, he looked at him like a stranger: "Just a classmate."
She didn't want to believe that she calculated his class schedule, created every chance encounter, and when she heard him telling others "she was just wishful thinking" in the cafeteria, she threw away the food and walked out without letting anyone see her expression.
Because he didn't know - that kiss, his ears were also red. After he said "just a classmate", he stood by the window and kept watching her retreating back.
She thought she was too self-righteous. She didn't know that every time she turned around and ran away, he stood there and looked at her back.
This is not a "gotcha" story. This is a story of chasing, falling, suffering, and then standing up. She spent her whole youth learning one thing, some likes, some roads, and you have to go to the end before you can see another road.
