The Last Class Reunion

Yin Jie had been single for twenty years.

Everyone told him to move on. He said he’d wait a little longer.

“Wait for what?”

“For a promise.”

Back then, she’d smiled and said, “We’ll always be classmates.” He wanted to tell her in person that he didn’t want to be just classmates.

Unfortunately, he waited twenty years for the chance to say those words to someone who “didn’t exist.”