[Mutual Unrequited Love] [Missed Chances] [Mending a Broken Relationship] [Intense Romantic Tension] [Both Pursue Each Other]
To Shen Nian, the name He Shangyan was like a rainy season in her youth, damp and seemingly endless.
Having a secret crush is like being caught in a torrential downpour. I deliberately stand outside your door, several times wanting to knock and ask if I can take shelter for a while. But I don't dare, so I can only stay out in the rain.
Shen Nian stood outside that door for three years. She thought her feelings were a silent, one-sided performance.
It wasn't until years later that she found a yellowed note tucked into the old book she'd given him.
It was written in the familiar hand of the boy he'd been, the strokes pressed firmly into the paper:
“Shen Nian, I've been out in this rain for a long time, too.”
It turned out she had been inside the door, while he, too, had been standing in the rain.
Six years ago, on the day they were about to go their separate ways,
He Shangyan thought Shen Nian had rejected his confession.
He left for a foreign country and shut his heart away.
But in Shen Nian's eyes, she had never been part of He Shangyan's future.
And so began six years of missing each other.
When they met again, she pretended to keep her distance,
while he lost his composure and pressed her at every turn.
“Shen Nian, what do I have to do before you'll understand how I feel?”
They say a lover's eyes are the world's eighth ocean.
One day, Shen Nian asked He Shangyan, “What do my eyes look like?”
He was silent for a moment, then said,
“Your eyes look like a boat.”
“A boat? Why?”
“Because every time I look into them, I'm lucky enough to climb aboard.”
Shen Nian was baffled. He Shangyan's fingers brushed her face.
I don't care who it carried before, and I don't care who it will carry in the future.
At least in this moment, I'm the one aboard.
He Shangyan really had thought that once. But now,
he wanted to be the only one aboard that boat for all the years to come.
Theme: Lovers find their way to each other in the end.
