He spent his last winter with him,
then went to see the first ocean for him.
Lin Yu was quiet, while Jiang Che was talkative.
One was like a winter lake, still and utterly calm;
the other was like a summer breeze, bringing laughter wherever he went.
They began in a classroom in their first year of high school,
walking side by side in the corridors and watching the sunset together on the rooftop.
Where no one could see, they quietly loved each other for many years.
Then Jiang Che fell ill.
He wrote the days he had left into letters, one sentence at a time,
from the age of eighteen to twenty-eight.
Every letter said the same thing:
"You have to live well."
The day Jiang Che left, dawn was just breaking.
Sunlight fell across his face like a sunrise that had come too late.
Many years later,
Lin Yu opened a cafe by the sea.
Its windows were huge, facing the ocean.
Every morning at 5:17,
the sunlight would spread across the entire room right on time.
A photograph hung on the wall.
Two boys stood on a rooftop, with a sky full of sunset behind them.
One was grinning boldly, the other expressionless.
Beneath the photo were the words:
"Knowing you was the happiest thing in my life."
It is also a story about "carrying you with me as I keep moving forward."
If you’ve ever lost someone very important to you,
if you’ve ever wondered in the middle of the night, "Does he miss me too?"
if you also believe that
some people may be gone, but never truly leave,
then this story is for you.
Theme: Sunset
