A subtle distance between them.
Quiet and reserved, she buried herself in books, secretly tucking her thoughts into draft paper and stolen glances between classes.
On a stormy night, he silently shared his umbrella with her. When she got stuck on a problem, he wrote down the solution without a word. When she fell at the sports meet, he was the first to bring her antiseptic.
Those little moments of tenderness kept adding up. Lin Zhiyou quietly fell for him, but didn't dare reveal even a hint of her feelings.
She thought it was a one-sided love, unaware that the boy's feelings were hidden just as carefully in details no one else noticed.
The college entrance exams ended, and a parting sent them scattering into the crowd.
Three years later, they met again at a class reunion. At last, the feelings they had kept buried since their youth could be confessed.
It turned out that the love they felt back then had always been mutual.
Theme: The feelings of youth are often hidden in silence and restraint. Some regrets aren't anyone's fault; we simply weren't brave enough back then to understand each other. Meeting again years later isn't about rewriting the past, but making peace with the timid selves we used to be.
