I've been waiting for years just for the right time.
When he was sixteen years old, Zhou Fengshi transferred to another school and returned to Xuncheng. When I opened the classroom door, I saw a person sitting by the window in the last row. The sun fell on his face, and he didn't look up, just turned a page of the book. Later Zhou Fengshi thought of that day and felt that everything started from that time.
He put a lot of candy on Xie Jingnian's table. Xie Jingnian didn't confiscate any of the lemon flavored, mint flavored, and White Rabbit toffees, and didn't throw any away. When he looked back at him under the cherry blossom tree during a spring outing, his eyes paused for a second longer than usual. During the basketball game, he took the initiative to reach out and give high fives, and his palms stayed hot all day long. He got lost and injured while camping. He huddled at the bottom of a dark slope and thought he was going to die. The first person to find him was Xie Jingnian. He carried him back to the camp, but fell down on the way and broke his watch. Zhou Fengshi bought a new one and lied to him that it was repaired, and he kept the old one. The dial was broken and the hands stopped at 10:17, which was the time Xie Jingnian found him.
On the day of the graduation ceremony, Xie Jingnian wiped his tears and said, "There are some things you should really think about before you say them." He got in the car and didn't look back. He had been thinking about those three sentences for ten years.
He studied design in college, opened a studio, won awards, and completely broke away from his family in the past ten years. They were all in Beijing, and he didn't tell him where he was. He listened to a song late at night and sent a "How are you doing" in the early morning. He didn't say, he thought he didn't know.
Returning to Xuncheng many years later, they reunited at the gathering of the five-person group. He sat diagonally across from him and finished a whole plate of salmon with his head lowered - not daring to look at him, for fear that he would be unable to hide it after just one glance. When the show ended, he took him home. The car was quiet and the street lights went by one by one. He got out of the car, took two steps, and stopped. He turned around and asked, "Do you still have your watch?" He said, "Yes. It's in the office drawer."
Later, someone asked Zhou Fengshi: "What's going on with you guys?" He said: "Friends. Just friends."
But Xie Jingnian heard it. Separated by a wall.
Later, he said "just kidding" at the dinner, and Xie Jingnian pulled him into the back seat of the car. The car door closed and his voice rang out in the darkness: "You have two seconds to consider our relationship." Two seconds passed and he did not answer. Xie Jingnian smiled and prepared to stand up. He pulled him in and kissed him.
What he didn't have time to say in those two seconds, he made up for with a kiss ten years later.
The old dream of Xuncheng comes every year. It's been a long time to wait, but now that you're here, it's not too late.
Purpose: Waiting for months and months is not for perfection, but to confirm that you are worthy of being loved.