During the Provincial Mathematics League, Lu Chi met a girl in the front row of the examination room with amazing problem-solving ideas - Shen Jingzhe from the provincial experiment. She hurriedly erased the writing on the draft paper before handing in the paper, absented herself from the award podium, and walked into the shadow of the sycamore tree without looking back. He only had time to read clearly the last two words under the eraser mark: Not alone.
In the first semester of high school, she transferred to Hailin No. 1 Middle School and sat in the front row of him. Xu Niannian cracked open her shell with a bag of snacks, and Jiang Yan watched everyone's back in silence. The tacit understanding of the four-person team - "Don't run away after school" - barbecues over the wall, overnight stays at Internet cafes, and rooftop slogans made Shen Jingzhe, a loner, feel for the first time that she might no longer have to go alone.
Her mother's illness, the past of provincial experiments, the unsolved case of her father's disappearance... She hides too many secrets. And Lu Chi used "meddling in other people's business" again and again to break open her closed door. She stood up in the crowd when the basketball game was winning, and outside the examination room where there was a power outage, he walked in to block the harassment for her. She took out a marker on the old wall on the rooftop, squatted next to the word "Not Gu" and continued writing stroke by stroke: I am not alone.
That year they climbed over the highest wall and survived the deepest night, thinking that their youth was invincible and that they could catch up with all the answers as long as they ran fast enough. After the college entrance examination, they went their separate ways, but reunited due to clues about her father's disappearance, from the old city of Wutong in Hailin to the unfamiliar streets of Southeast Asia. The ideal I shouted on the rooftop at the age of seventeen was finally burned and tempered repeatedly in the cruelty of the adult world and became a reality.
"I used to look forward to having someone with me. Now, it has come true."
After all these years, these four words are still the most popular answer when they look back on their youth.
Purpose: The road to ideals is never lonely, and those who bravely pursue the light will eventually meet.