She Waited for Dawn

Those who chase the light will eventually become the light. In March of the year she was thirteen, Xiang Wan saw him for the first time. He walked under the old poplar tree, and the sunlight drew his outline into a golden edge. She didn't know his name or which class he was in. She only knew that at that moment, a place in her heart became soft and sour, like taking a bite of an unripe green plum. Later she found out that his name was Lu Zhi, a junior in junior high school, one year older than her. There are only three months until the high school entrance examination. During those three months, she tried every means to find him on the campus of 3,000 people. In the cafeteria, on the playground, in the crowd after school - her eyes seemed to be equipped with radar, just to catch a silhouette. He didn't know she existed. But she had carved him into the first page of her diary. --- Later they met. He became the light in her late-night chat box, saying "You still have me, I'm here" in her darkest days. He said: "See it yourself later." When she was seventeen, she confessed her love. He refused. She didn't cry. She knew this would be the result. But from that day on, she began to truly "see by herself" - going to western Sichuan to see the Golden Mountains in Rizhao, going to Tibet to lie by the Namtso Lake and watch the stars, going to Nepal to climb snow-capped mountains, and going to the Mount Everest Base Camp to wait for dawn. She kept every sunrise she photographed in a folder called "I Saw It Myself." --- When she was thirty years old, she settled at the foot of the snow-capped mountains. One evening, she received a photo from him from Shanghai - dusk on the Bund, with only two words in the caption: "For you." She replied with one word: "Yeah." At this moment she finally understood—— Some people don't have to be together to be important. Some light, if you chase it, you will become the light yourself. --- Reading Guide Growth · Secret Love · Healing · Tibet · Boarding School · First Person · From Thirteen to Thirty Demining Slow-burning, delicate, and very refreshing. The male and female protagonists are not together, but the ending is warm and relieved. Concept: She once regarded one person as all the light, and then she herself became the light. Three levels of expansion: The first level: about secret love Some people don't have to be together to be important. The second level: about growth All dawns must first pass through night. The third level: About roots and distance He who perseveres takes the long way.