1998, Third grade of elementary school.
Ye Lingfeng was practicing shooting at the school gate, and the ball rolled to the feet of a girl.
That was the first time they looked at each other.
Ye Lingfeng didn't know that this girl would miss her for twenty years.
In 2008, the night when the college entrance examination ended.
Ye Lingfeng waited downstairs at Xia Xingmian's house until eleven o'clock.
Xia Xingmian went downstairs, her hair still dripping with water.
Ye Lingfeng said: "I have liked you since you helped me pick up balls in the third grade of elementary school."
Xia Xingmian stood for a long time: "I am later than you. But I also like you."
2012, Early summer.
Xia Xingmian said: "We are no longer suitable."
Ye Lingfeng asked why.
Xia Xingmian didn't answer.
Ye Lingfeng stood downstairs in the dormitory all night.
Xia Xingmian stood behind the curtain all night.
2014, Late autumn.
Ye Lingfeng retired from surgery and signed the consent form alone.
The nurse asked: "Where are the family members?"
"There are no family members," she said.
The same year, winter.
Xia Xingmian released his first album, the title song is called "Never Arrived".
The reporter asked: "Is the 'you' in the lyrics a real person?"
She was silent for a long time: "I lost the person."
2016, School anniversary.
There was a knock on the locker room door.
"Knee, does it still hurt?"
Ye Lingfeng raised his head and looked at the person at the door.
Thirteen years ago, the same voice, the same words.
This time she didn't ask why.
She just said: "It hurts."
Later, someone asked Xia Xingmian: It was so difficult for three years, why didn't you tell her?
Xia Xingmian said: Because she is the one who wants to win the gold medal. I couldn't make her stop for me.
Later, someone asked Ye Lingfeng: Is it worth waiting for her for three years?
Ye Lingfeng said: It's not about waiting. It was me who knew she would come back.
Intention: "You don't need to know, but my love has never left." - Or more simply - "I am here." The whole story only tells one thing from beginning to end: Xia Xingmian learned to speak in fifteen years, and Ye Lingfeng learned to wait in fifteen years. And they all did it.