Shou: I like you. We once said that we would realize our dreams together and travel all over China, from Mohe in the north to the ends of the earth. But you don't know that you are the dream that I can never realize, the mountains and seas that are always out of reach, and the ends of the world that I can never reach.
Gong: I didn't understand the meaning of loving you until you died. I owe you lots and lots of kisses, lots and lots of holding hands, and lots and lots of hugs. I owe you a lot of love, and I will spend the rest of my life repaying it.
The protagonist of this story was born in the 1960s and grew up in the 1970s and 1980s. His junior and senior high school years were in the early 1980s, and his college years were in the late 1980s and early 1990s.