On a rainy night when she was six years old, she rescued a boy who was covered in blood and taught him to "run if you can't fight, and pretend if you can't run."
We met again ten years later. He was the most favored Ninth Prince, and she was the daughter of an official family waiting to be elected to Beijing.
She forgot that rainy night. He remembered it for ten years.
Later she asked: "How much have you hidden?"
He said: "I can't remember clearly."
"You think... It's okay?"
"It's okay."
"Very good."
Concept: There are three levels of concept in total. The first layer: About "remembering" and "choosing". Bei Xuanming remembered every word she said and drew her every year from the age of twelve to gray hair. But he later said: "It's not that I remember. It's that when I wake up every morning and see you there, I feel - it's okay." Yingjia forgot about that rainy night, but when she remembered it, she started to write down his things with a pen, and even the word "" was written wrong. Later, she wrote it correctly. It was not taught by him, but learned by herself. Because she chose to remember him. The second level: About "pretending" and "not pretending" Yingjia has been accustomed to pleasing people since she was a child, using gentleness as armor. Bei Xuanming has endured for ten years, using Wu Hai as a mask. They are all "pretending". But after meeting each other, there is no need to pretend. In Chapter 14, she said, "No need to pretend now, because you are here." Chapter 15 She was wearing his clothes and spinning around in front of the mirror, her ears turned red. Chapter 19 He said "it's okay" on a rainy night - that was the highest praise he could give. Love is not about making people perfect, it is about letting people show their weaknesses safely. The third level: About "becoming" At the end of the story, she wrote "very good". These two words were a response to his "okay" and also her confirmation of herself. Not "very good", but "very good" - she learned to affirm herself. "Become" is not a grand word. It's a dot, a fingerprint, half a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake, a crooked crab, a name that has been hidden on a tree trunk for many years, a cup of tea that is clinked every morning, and an old piece of clothing that is too big and has to be taken off. Becoming is a daily choice, a daily accumulation, and a day that two people walk together. Summed up in one sentence: From "remember" to "choose" to "become" - this is not a story about waiting, but a story about choice. He chose her, she chose him, and together they chose to be each other for a lifetime.