In the summer when she was seventeen, Lin Yiwei and her best friend Lin Wan got lost in the forest on the outskirts of Lindu.
A wooden house for inspectors to rest became a place where four people met - Lin Yiwei, Lin Wan, Yu Xiao, and Chouhao. The inspector sent them to the police station. That was Lin Yiwei's first time entering the police station, and it was also the first time she remembered Yu Xiao's name.
Later, they were all admitted to Lindu No. 1 High School. Yu Xiao is in Class 11 and she is in Class 7. Across the entire corridor, she would occasionally see him leaning against the window and reading a book during class, with the collar of his white shirt always buttoned with the wrong button. Later, they walked into the forest again and found the little river that no one cared about. The river is shallow, but it flows. Yu Xiao squatted by the river and told her that this was the most "alive" river he had ever seen.
That autumn, Lin Yiwei touched flowing water for the first time. She didn't know that that was also the last time she and Yu Xiao watched the river together.
When she entered college, Yu Xiao went to study abroad under the arrangement of her family. She was not asked to see him off on the day he left, but later she often thought of the small river and the cold touch of the water as it flowed away between her fingers - no matter how tightly you hold it, it will leave without a drop left.
Some people are like rivers, they just pass through your valley. With the snowy water and cloud shadows in the distance, stay in your river channel for a rainy season, and then continue to go east. You can't keep them, but you now know what water looks like.
Liquid, cold, changing every second.
Is alive.
Intention: The meaning of some encounters is not to have them for a long time, but to be changed by them. Just like that nameless river, it just passes through your valley and continues to flow eastward, but the coolness of the water flowing through your fingers has been engraved into your bones and blood. Those people and things in youth that were destined to be separated eventually became part of our bodies - we couldn't hold them and couldn't forget them, so we continued to walk downstream with them.