The summer when Sui Wanyin transferred school and returned to her hometown, Metasequoia Road was a bit taller than in memory.
Holding a stack of old test papers, she broke into the empty classroom and bumped into Gu Yusen, a young man who was moving the last row of tables by the window ten centimeters away, leaving it for someone who would never come back.
The whole school said that Gu Yusen was cold and taciturn, but only Suiwanyin heard him whisper her name softly, like the wind blowing the word "wan" into a soft leaf.
Later, the shadow cast by the metasequoia became longer and longer, and the radio station played "Sunny Day" for the 365th time.
Sui Wanyin wrote on the last page of the textbook:
"If no one calls me 'Wanyin' again after the college entrance examination, will I lose the whole night?"
Gu Yusen added a line of pencil writing next to it——
"I'll lend you the wood in the word forest, so you don't have to be afraid of no summer."
But the second the graduation photo clicked, no one looked up at the camera.
Gardenias fell at my feet, as white as an unspoken goodbye.
Intention: "Write secret love as the name of your deskmate, and you can smell the evening breeze of gardenias when you turn any page."