On the day the Grade 11 classes were reshuffled, Lin Yan gave up his place as the top student at City No. 1 High School and transferred to Zhenhua High, the worst school in the city. Everyone thought he had gone crazy.
Only he knew that two summers earlier, outside a convenience store, a girl in a white dress had handed him an umbrella and smiled. "Hey, you're soaked."
He had searched for her for two years. At last, he had found her.
But Shen Yu didn't remember him. She frowned and said, "Stay away from me. I don't hang out with good students."
Lin Yan folded his perfect-score test paper into a paper airplane and sent it flying onto her desk. "Then from now on, I won't be a good student either."
He laid his plans step by step, taking them from the classroom dividing line to sharing a desk, from tutoring to standing side by side. Others saw only a top student's downfall. He alone knew that there was no such thing as coincidence in this world. He had crossed a sea of people and turned two years of longing into the gentlest of schemes.
Later, Shen Yu asked him, "Why were you so determined to transfer to Zhenhua?"
Lin Yan lowered his head and smiled, but didn't answer.
Because he knew that some answers were too heavy to tell in anything less than a lifetime.
Theme: A steadfast search begun in youth and a salvation they find together, becoming each other's light in the most chaotic days of adolescence.
