Lars Wagner, German, 1.95 Meters tall, captain of the Stanford volleyball team. When he was seventeen years old, a smashing video went viral all over the Internet. However, after becoming famous, he changed his Instagram profile to "Volleyball", rejected the agency, and continued to get up at five o'clock every day to train.
His mother is the youngest chief director in the history of Massachusetts General Hospital, and his father is a tenured professor at Harvard University.
Shen Yan, a Chinese government-sponsored international student, Department of Journalism, peach blossom eyes. From a third-tier city in Fujian to Stanford, he lived on scholarships and was supported by ambition. The first time she saw his video, she only watched it for half a second - what she saw in that half second was not him, but the Pacific Ocean made up of class, resources, and parents' education. He is on this side of the sea, and she is on the other side of the sea.
"I like you" is hidden in every ball he dunks, hidden in the two tickets across the Pacific, and hidden in the courage of two souls desperately approaching each other in the gap between class and identity.
A small piece of paper stuck in a notebook, a ball that has been dunked.
European and American campuses·Academic CP·Restrained ambiguity
Author's Note: The title is inspired by Hemingway's "Crossing the River and Into the Woods". The title comes from the river. It has three meanings. The first is that the heroine, as a student from an ordinary family, through her own efforts and talents, step by step walks out of a small county town and reaches a bigger stage of her own. The second meaning is that the characters in it are full-bodied, vivid, and flowing like a river. The third meaning is about the class difference between the male and female protagonists.
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Intention: to walk across the river, cross the surging water, and finally reach the other side