When she was seven years old, Shen Weixi left the Taicheng compound and the boy who carried her home.
Nine years later, in the sunset at Lover's Dam in Haishi, she held up her camera to take pictures of the sea. She was unaware that fifty meters behind her, a young man recognized her immediately. She didn't recognize him - nine years of blank space is enough to change a person's outline beyond recognition.
But he remembers. I remember she said she wanted to go see the sea, I remember she pulled his sleeve and said "Don't forget me", I remember the postcard she sent every year for his birthday, without a signature, only saying "Happy Birthday".
Then she fell ill. He dropped out of school, traveled to five cities, and was diagnosed with hereditary heart disease. They traveled to all places except Xinjiang and Tibet. She was smiling in every photo, and he was looking at her in every photo.
After failing the college entrance examination, she changed her choice and went to a strange city in the south. He said, "Everywhere a plane can reach is not far."
From a different city to a different province, from a foreign country to a different hemisphere, seven years and hundreds of air tickets. She thought she didn't need anyone, and he thought she could wait forever.
Until there were fewer and fewer messages in the dialog box, both of them learned to remain silent.
What she didn't know was that in the first year after he returned to China, they were only ten minutes apart by car, but neither of them said "meet".
All she knew was that she would open that dialog box on her phone once a day and then close it.
——It's not like she hasn't given up. She just felt that it wasn't over yet.
Intention: In a limited life, learn to accept love and be loved; in the long wait, believe that the future will be long.