Carrying a secret love that had filled her entire youth, Jiang Bei traveled to Edinburgh, England, where she unexpectedly reunited with Song Muchuan, the boy she had not seen in ten years.
A distant glimpse of him on a rainy street brought all her buried feelings surging back. The day before Jiang Bei was due to return home, she ran into Song Muchuan again at a coffee shop. He had settled there, and unable to resist, she followed him, only to discover that the bar belonged to him. At last, they met properly and sat down to talk, catching up on old times from their school days after ten years apart.
Alcohol loosened the restraint of adulthood. Summoning her courage, Jiang Bei confessed the love she had kept hidden since middle school and kissed Song Muchuan. He revealed his own long-concealed feelings, and they spent a tender, intimate night together. But Jiang Bei got blackout drunk. When she woke up in his arms, both of them naked, panic and unease filled her heart. She couldn’t tell whether the tenderness of the previous night had come from genuine feelings or a momentary impulse fueled by alcohol. Afraid of ruining the love she had cherished for ten years, she couldn’t face Song Muchuan and fled the apartment while he was still asleep.
They had not exchanged contact information, and Jiang Bei hurried onto her flight home. A long-awaited reunion across mountains and seas, born of youthful affection, ended in a miserable, unannounced departure in the early hours of a foreign morning. All that remained was Jiang Bei, burying the grand yet humble secret love she had carried for ten years.
