When Lin Yu was seventeen, he transferred schools and moved from the north to an old courtyard house in the south, in a place called Baima Alley.
His father pointed to the son of the woman in the living room and said, “Call him big brother.”
His name was Xie Ci, the top student in Class A at the affiliated high school, and as cold as an ice machine. He sat behind Lin Yu, and the extent of his daily exercise was glancing up at him.
Lin Yu thought there was something wrong with him.
Xie Ci thought Lin Yu was annoying.
Later, they lived under the same roof, ate from the same pot, rode the same school bus, and sat the same exams.
Then, they went their separate ways for six years.
Cicadas sang through summer after summer. Some people travel a long way, yet still find their way back to the original plane tree.
