Zhang Xia and Li Wanyi were the closest of friends in everyone else's eyes.
They went to class together, stayed up late together, squeezed into the same little bed, and promised they would be together forever.
They were more intimate than lovers and understood each other better than family,
but there was always a thin sheet of paper between them, one neither dared to pierce.
They were afraid, they couldn't, they couldn't bear to.
Later...
One went on a blind date.
One went to business dinners.
One was pressured by her family to get married.
One put on a wedding dress, with someone else standing by her side.
They had pulled away and tested the waters, drawn close and pushed each other away.
Their love was practically spilling over,
yet neither dared say, "I like you."
Later still,
they each married and went on with their own lives.
They lived in the same city, but never contacted each other again.
When asked, they would only say:
"She was my classmate."
Only she knew
that this was the person she had loved in secret for half her life, the one she never dared to speak of.
Premise: Two female leads, school life, urban, devoted love, unrequited love, restraint, emotional push and pull, realistic, regret, tragic ending.
