After Reuniting with My Childhood Friend, Who Lost His Memory

Mixed-race athlete top x naturally adorable bottom

Reunited childhood friends / rekindled romance / university campus. Present, memories, present. The current story is in the flashback section of Volume Two.

Ying Xuan was born before the great construction boom in Lugang. Parks, youth centers, and libraries sprang up all over the coastal city, and people from elsewhere began to pour in.

While Ying Xuan was daydreaming beside a park's card table, he met a strange kid from out of town. With yellow eyes and a high nose bridge, he looked like a freak.

The freak fell down right in front of him. The blood made Ying Xuan jump, but the kid stood up and said, "I'm impressive, right?"

Ying Xuan nodded. "That was an impressive fall."

The strange kid was called Lu Wanbo. He was two years older than Ying Xuan and showed up at the park every day with mysterious treats: glutinous rice cakes, dried persimmons, cream puffs... Since Ying Xuan had taken the food, he felt obliged to return the favor, so he went to get snacks at the same time every day. Before long, they were eating, studying, picking fruit, sleeping, and talking about their dreams together.

Ying Xuan: My dream is to always have delicious food.

Lu Wanbo: My dream is to become world champion.

Every year during the Spring Festival, when Ying Xuan prayed to the gods, he wished for Lu Wanbo's dream to come true, since his own dream had already come true.

He didn't know the price of achieving a dream. Lu Wanbo drew closer and closer to his goal, traveling to many places and winning many medals, while growing farther and farther from Ying Xuan, until one day he left and never came back, without a word.

Five years later, Ying Xuan ran into Lu Wanbo again at university. His childhood friend had no memory of him and said politely, "Hello. Do we know each other?"

Nineteen-year-old Ying Xuan and twenty-one-year-old Lu Wanbo started spending time together again, gradually becoming part of each other's lives as classmates, neighbors, and friends. It seemed as if this was the path their lives should have taken all along.

But somehow, they seemed to have taken a wrong turn. While they were kissing, Lu Wanbo asked, "What were we to each other before? Were we lovers?"

Ying Xuan didn't answer. He covered Lu Wanbo's light brown eyes with his palm.

Ying Xuan had always loved his eyes. They had made a deep impression on him the first time they met. At ten, he slept in the same bed as their owner. At thirteen, he wiped away the tears that fell from those eyes. At fifteen, he gently kissed those thin eyelids, like a butterfly pausing for a moment.

Reading guide: One-on-one romance throughout, no groveling after a breakup.

Content warning: Uneven pacing.

Theme: Love heals others, and it heals oneself too.