He Wrote to Me

In his sophomore year of high school, Lin Xu received a letter. It's not written to him. It was Zhou Yu who gave it to him - asking him to help deliver it to the school beauty Xu Nian. Lin Xu is the most transparent person in the class. My grades are in the middle and I have a quiet personality. I sit by the window, put my hand into the sunlight, and watch myself become transparent. Zhou Yu is a school bully known to the whole school. He gets into fights, skips classes, is rumored, and has eye sockets so deep that you can't even see the bottom. Lin Xu nodded. Love letters were laughed at in public. "The words are so ugly that they can ward off evil spirits." Xu Nian stood in the corridor, laughing so hard. The forum post went four or five pages, and no one knew who wrote it. Lin Xu picked up the soiled envelope at the back door of the teaching building, flattened the letter paper inside, folded it, and put it in his pocket. He didn't know why he kept it. The second letter, the third letter, the fourth letter—every one was laughed at, torn to pieces, thrown into the trash. The ends of Zhou Yu's eyes are getting redder and redder, and he comes less and less frequently. Until one day, he blocked Lin Xu in an alley, and his voice was as hoarse as sandpaper: "Do you think I'm funny too?" Lin Xu didn't know what he was thinking. He only knew that the moment Zhou Yu turned around, he stretched out his hand and grabbed his sleeve. Then he stood up on tiptoes and kissed him on the corner of the mouth. That was the first kiss between them. Later, Zhou Yu learned that no one had ever replied to the love letters he sent out. Those replies that were gentler than the last, those beautiful pen calligraphy-all were written by Lin Xu. He regarded those replies as his own and secretly stuffed them into Zhou Yu's desk. One letter, two letters, three letters... Until the seventh letter, he wrote four words: "I miss you too." That was the best letter Zhou Yu had ever received in his life. The days that followed were not so sweet. His grandma left and his father was released from prison. Zhou Yu sent him to the hospital and locked him up for fifteen days. Lin Xu waited in that alley for fifteen days, squatting until his legs went numb, until it got dark, and until the rain soaked him. But he's always there. It took ten years to walk from that alley to the wedding hall. It will take ten years to turn "I'll help you give it to her" to "It's yours in this life." It took ten years to write the seventh love letter for a lifetime. Some people, when you first see them, you know you can't escape them in this life. Intention: Those who are not seen will eventually be seen by another person.