An Qi and Shen Yilan grew up together. When she walked slowly, he would wait; as time passed, even "waiting" became natural.
Once she stood at the school gate and asked, "Aren't you bored waiting like this every day?"
Shen Yilan said in a very calm tone: "On the way."
When she was seventeen, she stood under the locust tree and wanted to say those words.
"Shen Yilan——"
As soon as she opened her mouth, he said first: "I'm going abroad."
All words stopped, and she nodded: "Very good."
None of them took another step forward.
Goodbye was the emergency room ten years later.
She looked up and saw him standing not far away, with a dizzy girl beside him.
An Qi only paused for a moment, then walked over and said in a calm tone: "What's wrong with you?"
It's like I've never known him.
—
Later, he began to appear frequently in her life.
When she got off the night shift, he waited for her at the door and handed her his coat; when they went to have breakfast, he broke open the dough sticks and handed them to her.
She suddenly asked: "How do you know I don't eat coriander?"
Shen Yilan glanced at her: "I guess."
She finally asked him: "Are you... Always like this?"
"What kind?"
She looked at him and said in a low voice: "To me."
He didn't answer, but he didn't deny either.
Only later did she realize that the words she had not spoken under the locust tree that year were never a person's thoughts.
But they all stopped in place.
Ten years later, the locust tree is still there.
Shen Yilan stood there, looking at her, and said softly: "An Qi, is it still too late?"
Purpose: People make many choices in life, but it is often the unspoken decisions that really change their destiny.
