All he wanted was to quietly come first in his grade,
then leave this place where nobody knew him.
On his first day after transferring, no one spoke to him.
He sat by the window near the front door, working through problems,
thinking this year would be just like all the ones before:
eating alone, walking home alone, carrying every burden alone.
Then someone came up to him,
smiling as she asked,
"Hey, you're the new transfer student, right?"
That was Xu Zhiwei.
From then on,
someone waited for him so they could eat together,
someone walked with him through the dark,
someone stepped in front of a swinging club for him,
and when he was being beaten, someone stood in front of him and said,
"He's my boyfriend."
They kept finding their own ways to draw closer,
all so that one day they could stand side by side somewhere higher,
and look back together at the road they'd traveled.
When did you realize you'd fallen for someone?
Maybe it was
the moment you started secretly remembering every little thing about her.
