Resilient girl × cool-faced, sharp-tongued hottie
Translator × aerospace engineer
Crush turns mutual|Reunion after years apart|Bittersweet|Both reach for each other
"The person I like is you."
That answer came four whole years too late.
That day was the first time Wen Yu met Xie Zhixu.
Xie Zhixu was a new transfer student at Jiangwu No. 1 High School. He never spoke to anyone and always kept to himself. A month into their second year, he still hadn't made any friends, and she had never seen him smile. He always wore a cold expression and seemed impossible to approach.
That day, rain beat against the ground, splashing water all over Wen Yu's pant cuffs as she waited for it to stop beneath the bus shelter.
Suddenly, an umbrella appeared beside her. He said nothing, simply standing quietly nearby, his eyes deep and his black headphones pressed tightly over his ears.
Wen Yu took the umbrella in a daze. Xie Zhixu pulled up his hoodie and left on the bus.
A thought rose in her mind.
"Maybe he's not that hard to approach after all."
The class started a peer study group, and Wen Yu, who was completely lost in physics, was paired with Xie Zhixu as his deskmate.
"Hi, I'm Wen Yu. You gave me an umbrella once."
"I know."
To make it easier to communicate about their studies, they exchanged contact information.
One day, Wen Yu's friend chatted with her. "Ay Yu, I heard your deskmate likes someone in your class. Do you know who it is?"
Wen Yu shook her head.
The next evening, she sent Xie Zhixu a message.
[Wen Yu: I heard you like someone?]
[Xie Zhixu: Yeah]
[Wen Yu: That's nice. Can you tell me what she's like?]
[Xie Zhixu: Sure]
Wen Yu wanted to know what kind of person he liked, but when she saw the words "typing..." appear, she suddenly didn't want to hear it anymore.
She left the chat and deleted all their contact information.
She went alone to a prestigious cram school in another province.
They never saw each other again before graduation, and didn't even have the chance to appear in the same photo.
In her third year of college, Wen Yu's roommate took her to a mixer with neighboring Nanhua University. She heard the students there were in the same year as them.
She pushed open the door to a private room in a bar and saw the blurry face from her memories.
Later,
Wen Yu found an unsent message on Xie Zhixu's old phone.
"Her name is... Wen Yu."
Theme: May all your wishes come true.
