The night he rejected her, Song Herong smiled as she tore up the love letter and said, "Forget it." Qi Jinnan stood at the back door of the classroom, watching her fingers turn white as she ripped the paper. It suddenly dawned on him: she might never love him again.
Song Herong thought he was pushing her away.
Qi Jinnan knew he was pushing himself away.
Later, she went abroad, and he spent countless nights unable to sleep. Some said he was trying to atone. He said he just wanted her to come back. But the girl who used to chase after him never once looked back.
He thought she would always look back, until she stopped looking at him at all.
The day she left, Qi Jinnan cried over someone for the first time.
She was the only light in his world. But he was so afraid he would blow it out that he pushed her away with his own hands.
Only later did he realize he couldn't go on living in a world without her.
The best thing Qi Jinnan ever did was reject her when she confessed. The thing he regretted most was realizing how badly he wanted her only after she was gone.
Brooding, obsessive older Qi Jinnan x cheerful, sunny younger Song Herong
Theme: The salvation and growth of young people.
