Big-tech engineer x theater stage manager
A love story between urban strivers
Adults | Each other's first love | Bittersweet ending
For Zhou Ningxuan's twentieth birthday, she gives Wu Linxi merchandise from his favorite soccer team.
The inside cover of the notebook reads, "You will never walk alone."
She says they can take it as a message for the two of them. He says that one day, they'll make a pilgrimage to Liverpool together.
Back then, they are passionately in love.
On Zhou Ningxuan's twenty-fifth birthday, she does two earth-shattering things.
First, she decides to stay in Beijing. Second, she ends her seven-year relationship with Wu Xilin.
That winter, work takes her to Liverpool. The promise they made five years earlier is still vivid in her mind, and now it has become a punishment.
Three years later, during lunch break at a cafe beneath an office building, Zhou Ningxuan unexpectedly runs into Wu Linxi.
They think it's just a coincidence, and simply exchange smiles.
But fate apparently isn't done with them. They run into each other on the subway during the morning rush, then end up in the same rideshare after work...
Later, Wu Linxi keeps messaging her, "What time are you getting off work tonight?"
On the verge of turning thirty, reason tells her to back away, but Zhou Ningxuan finds the courage to try again.
Knowing she'll repeat the same mistakes, she still agrees to get late-night food.
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Why does the summer breeze feel so cold against my skin?
Beneath the rows of towering office buildings, they finally accept without reservation that they were only passersby in each other's lives.
The message they leave each other is still, "You will never walk alone."
Even if the person beside you in the end isn't me.
"I hope we become the kind of adults we always wanted to be. May your dreams come true, and may life keep getting better for you."
/July 26, 2026
Theme: You will never walk alone.
