Qu Ying had always hated waiting for people. When she was seventeen, she met Xu Xiaoran. He said, "I'll wait for you."
The first time she took the initiative was just before she left. She made a list: skipping class, holding hands, saying "I love you," kissing him once... She ticked them off one by one. He thought it was a list of things to do as a couple. In truth, it was a list of goodbyes.
His mother had asked her to persuade him to study abroad, and his father had said, "It's time to go." She agreed. Then she disappeared.
Seven years later, they met again. He was the head of Chuangyu, and she was an advertising manager. At the negotiating table, he deliberately gave her a hard time, so she slammed a bottle of baijiu down on the table. When she passed out drunk, he carried her home and kept watch over her all night.
But neither of them knew that when she had broken down in tears at the train station over a retreating figure, he had been hiding in an alley, listening to her call his name, too afraid to come out.
She thought he never came. He had come, but hadn't dared to show himself.
She waited for him for seven years. He searched for her for seven years.
It turned out we were the same: afraid of waiting for someone, but even more afraid they would never come.
Theme: A girl who grew up neglected spent seven years learning to take the initiative. A boy who had been too afraid to show himself spent seven years learning to be brave. They thought they were waiting for each other, but really, they were waiting for themselves.
