Lin Zhi caught her boyfriend of five years cheating on her and left only a sticky note:
"Let's break up."
On the day I moved into the seventh floor of the old community, it rained heavily in Chengdu.
There lived a strange man named Shen Xingzhi across the door.
He helped her clear the drain, shielded her from her ex-boyfriend, and put medicine at her door late at night, but he didn't even say a single unnecessary word.
Lin Zhi thought he just had a bad temper.
Until that day she discovered that his studio was called "Chigui".
The last sentence of the composition she wrote when she was seventeen was:
"For anyone who returns late, there is always someone waiting for him."
Only then did she find out that Shen Xingzhi had been secretly in love with her for eleven years.
He remembered all the little things about her.
I remember she loved to buy strawberry candies after school.
I remember that she didn't look up the day she won the prize for her essay.
I remember that she was afraid of thunder and that she would not be able to wait until someone came home.
He hid these so well that Lin Zhi didn't notice them at all.
But when she finally dared to approach him, Shen Xingzhi said:
"Lin Zhi, I'm going to have surgery."
"I may die, or I may not remember you when I wake up."
Lin Zhi said: "It doesn't matter. If you forget me, I will chase you again."
After the operation, Shen Xingzhi woke up.
He looked at her like a stranger.
"Who are you?"
Lin Zhi stood in the ward, tears falling on the back of his hands.
She didn't leave.
She wanted to get back the person who had been waiting for her for eleven years.
