Su Zhiyi's youth was a grand secret love that no one knew about.
When she was seventeen, she met Gu Nanfeng under the camphor tree at Mingde High School - the young man who stood in the light and was always dazzling. For the next three years, she hid all her heartbeats, wrote his name all over the scraps of paper, locked her thoughts in her diary, and loved him humbly and passionately in a corner where he could not see.
She gave up the liberal arts she was good at for him, tried her best to catch up with her grades for him, huddled in the corner for him on rainy days and watched him go away with an umbrella, and stayed up all night because of his neglect. But her love was just a one-man show from beginning to end: he couldn't see her eyes, couldn't remember her name, and even asked the cruelest question "Which class are you from?" When they reunited.
In ten years, she grew from a young girl to a calm elementary school teacher, and finally learned to reconcile with the past and herself. And his belated guilt could not replace her passionate youth.
This is a story about secret love, growth and relief. It is a girl's long journey from chasing light to becoming her own light in ten years. The south wind has not yet risen, but her heart has been exhausted; as time goes by, she finally lives the way she likes.
Purpose: To pay tribute to every youth that has worked hard: even if there is no ending, that passionate, brave and pure time is still worth remembering.
