When classes were divided in September, Lu Jinwan, a violent young man who was avoided by everyone, was arranged to sit at the same table with the quiet and cold transfer student Wen Yudeng.
Everyone thought she was unlucky. Only Wen Yudeng never ran away or hid, handed him warm water when he came back from a fight, and sat firmly next to him when he was isolated from the whole world. He was covered in spikes, and she caught them all without a word.
No one knows, it's not that she is not afraid, it's that she knows too early that she has no future. A rare chronic wasting disease engulfed her body, and her lifespan had already been marked down. She didn't dare to confess or rush to him, so she could only use the little tenderness she had left to quietly heal this young man's desolate and gloomy life.
It was the first time that Lu Jinwan was treated like this. He stumbled and got better, stopped being stubborn and studied hard, and planned a future with her. He thought that the days ahead were long, and that after surviving the darkness, they would be able to walk towards dawn together.
But his light went out forever in the midsummer when he was eighteen years old.
Many years later, he became famous, gentle and calm, and everyone said that he had changed for the better. Only he knew that the person who pulled him out of the abyss was no longer there.
The evening wind blew through the old streets every year, and he could never return to the old light that illuminated his life.
