Also known as "See You Next Time" and "The Promise I Failed to Keep"
"We made an appointment... See you next time."
"But when is your 'next time'?"
That summer, when the cicadas were chirping fiercely and the wind was blowing through the trees, Lin Yunxi, a quiet high school girl, met a cold and distant boy. Their world begins with a quiet desk, a note handed over by chance, and a seemingly casual "Classmate, have you read enough?" And "This question is very simple, do you need me to teach you?"
From unfamiliarity to familiarity, it is the tacit understanding formed by countless "drop-in" colleagues, the quiet time shared in the library, and the sincerity hidden under the joke: "Kittens are cute, and so are you." Under the starry sky at night, the girl looked up at the stars, but what the boy stared at was a profile that was more precious than the stars - "She was looking at the stars that day, and I was looking at my sweetheart."
At the closest moment to a beautiful moment, they made a seemingly easy agreement about the future: "After graduating from college, if we don't have anyone we like each other, we'll be together."
However, fate planted the seeds of winter in the hottest summer. A cold winter that no one expected suddenly came, freezing all expectations and possibilities. The promise is still in my ears, but the person who promised to go to "next time" together is forever absent from the promised future.
"But you still made a mistake after all..."
"See you in the next life. What I hate is not that you don't love me anymore, but that you can't love me anymore."
This is a story about how "like" grows quietly and is forced to stop abruptly when it is most brilliant. Here is the purest heartbeat of youth and the most ruthless tricks of fate. Different from Yu Dong's story, there is another pair of intertwined trajectories of an eccentric elementary school bully and a righteous young man. They are equally shining, and they are also at the fork in the road of youth, leading to their respective endings.
"See You Next Time" - a youth narrative dedicated to all the beauty and regrets. When "next time" becomes the shore that can no longer be reached, we understand that some agreements are not meant to be followed, but to be remembered.
Concept: Momentary regret constitutes eternal love