The author has something to say:
The male protagonist does not reject the relationship because he looks down on the female protagonist, dislikes her conditions, or thinks that the female protagonist is not good enough for him.
The male protagonist has real feelings for the female protagonist, but "like" does not mean "mature", "responsible" or "loving".
This article will not use "he actually loves her very much" to excuse all the harmful behaviors of the male protagonist.
The heroine once liked to take the initiative to get closer and accepted ambiguous relationships. This does not mean that she is frivolous, nor does it mean that she accepts being looked down upon.
The two ended up being together, not because the heroine was not good enough, but because of long-term relationship imbalance, misses, and growth differences.
This is a coming-of-age story for the female protagonist, not a whitewashing story for the male protagonist.
Xu Zhiyi has liked Zhou Xuchuan for many years. In high school, they were classmates. We went to class together, studied in the evenings, and joked around together, and maintained an ambiguity that no one acknowledged amidst everyone's booing. She once thought that they just needed to say "together". Later she learned that some people can accompany you through your youth, come back to your life again and again, care about you, be reluctant to let you go, and even cross the boundaries of friends, but they never really choose you. Over the years, they fell in love, separated, grew up, and reconnected again and again. Xu Zhiyi also persistently wanted to know an answer: Did Zhou Xuchuan ever like her? It wasn't until he appeared again many years later that she finally discovered that some answers were no longer important if they were known too late. This is a story about youth, ambiguity, miss and growth. They are not lovers and have never been exes.
Intention: Some growth is learning to say goodbye to youth without answers