"Love and farewell both require courage."
During the military training in the summer when she was sixteen years old, Pei Yizhen's entire youth was stained with Yang Xi's name, as was the startling glimpse under the scorching sun.
He was her military training instructor in her freshman year of high school, and he was also the dazzling senior who chose to repeat her studies because of unsatisfactory grades.
She hid her thoughts in the dialog box of the history question, in the few seconds between running and exercise, and in a confession letter that she never dared to read the reply to.
But when they met in reality, her inferiority complex wrapped around her heart like a vine, so she could only hide in the corner and look up at his light.
It wasn't until he graduated and left that she sent out the 1,300-word confession letter late at night, but fled in a hurry the moment he replied - she didn't dare to read his reply, not because she was afraid of being rejected, but because she was afraid that the grand secret love that only belonged to her would end.
She thought this was the most correct way to like someone - to be quiet, restrained, and not asking for a response.
Until the winter when she was twenty-one, Lu Youyou asked her: "Have you ever thought that you confused 'like him' with 'complete this secret love'?"
Only then did she realize that the person who trapped her was not that person, but herself who "must end perfectly".
In the seventh year of her crush on him, she finally said to herself: You can graduate from this crush.
Purpose: A girl learns to accept herself in a long secret love, reconciles with her youth in the company of friendship, and finally understands that sincerely liking someone and saying goodbye to the relationship decently are gifts given to her by her growth.
