When Lin Yingzhi transferred to Nanyu No. 1 Middle School, the school magazine "Fengxin" had been discontinued for a long time.
She was arrested by the Chinese teacher to sort out old materials, and found a blue mailbox in the dusty school history room. There was a yellowed label on the mailbox: Unclaimed.
That was the most special anonymous column of "Wind Letter".
Some people post confessions, some people post regrets, and some people fold unspeakable words into letter paper, waiting for a reply from someone whose name they will never know.
After restarting the column, the first complete letter I received contained only one sentence:
"If everyone thinks you should win, but you don't want to move forward, is this considered unpromising?"
She didn't know who wrote the letter.
Only reply in the next issue of the school magazine:
"When you don't want to leave, stop for a moment. The wind doesn't blow all the time."
Later, everyone in Nanyu No. 1 Middle School knew that Xie Zhibai, from Class 2 and Class 3, was cool, outstanding, and well-educated. He was a boy with a bright future according to the teacher.
Only Lin Yingzhi knew that he would also stay silent for a long time in the teaching building late at night, crumple up the useless competition questions, and show a slight daze when everyone was happy for him.
And Xie Zhibai also gradually discovered that the transfer student who always sat quietly by the window was not without his edge.
Her edge is hidden in her words.
Gentle, sharp, and so accurate that there is no escape.
Before graduating from high school, Lin Yingzhi received the sixteenth anonymous letter.
But the legendary seventeenth letter was never sent to her.
Many years later, Nanyu old school was renovated.
Lin Yingzhi returned to his alma mater for an interview as the editor of a publishing house, and met Xie Zhibai again in the school magazine room that was about to be demolished.
He was no longer the young man in the white shirt, but his eyebrows were still cold and cold. He stood next to the old mailbox and asked her:
"If that letter arrives now, is it too late?"
Lin Yingzhi found out later.
There is no confession in the seventeenth letter.
There is only one sentence that is many years late.
"I hope that when you go far away, you don't feel like you're the one left behind."
But what Xie Zhibai didn't know was.
She has traveled such a long way, and what she wants to look back on the most is the place where the wind stopped when she was seventeen.
Purpose: The meaning of growth is to face oneself