Zhang Zhixia first noticed Wang Yu when he was on the roll call at the beginning of the first year of high school.
He sat in the last row and slept. When called upon by the class teacher, he stood up slowly, his voice was hoarse and his eyes were blank. She thought they would never cross paths until she changed seats and he became the person diagonally behind her.
His grades were ridiculously bad, but he would whisper reminders when she was asked questions by the teacher, even though the answers were often wrong; he loved to provoke her, pulling her ponytail, borrowing her pens without returning them, and giving her an orange candy on the side of the playground. His brother teased her and called her "sister-in-law". She blushed and sent him a WeChat message asking him to take care of it. He readily agreed, but turned around and chased her even more diligently.
It's not that she doesn't like it. She was just afraid - afraid of delaying her studies, afraid of falling in the rankings, and afraid of disappointing her mother. So she never agreed, but she secretly remembered those ambiguous moments in her heart. He followed her on his bicycle on the way home from evening self-study, he called her name downstairs at her house on weekends, and he protected her behind her when there were fights at school.
Then at the beginning of his senior year of high school, he suddenly transferred to another school. There was no farewell, no graduation photo, and even the academic record failed to allow him to write a single note.
Many years later, she heard someone calling her name at the high-speed rail station. Looking back, it was him.
He said: "Zhang Zhixia, long time no see."
The answer that has been delayed for many years finally has the opportunity to be written.
Concept: Regrets in youth are not the end. Some people like you will be late, but they will not be absent.