At Beijing West Railway Station when they were eighteen, Ye Jiashu gave Chu Yining a one-way ticket home.
She had bought only a one-way ticket when she came, bringing the savings she had secretly gathered since childhood. If her confession succeeded, she would stay.
Ye Jiashu saw through everything and understood it all, but never said a word.
He got a girlfriend of his own and introduced boyfriends to Chu Yining, telling her not to fixate on one person. There were so many interesting people and things in the world, and he wasn't worth it.
Chu Yining said, "Stay out of my business."
On that bitterly cold night, beside a lotus pond with no moon in the sky, Chu Yining cried as she pounded his chest. "Ye Jiashu, you're a block of ice. You'll never warm up."
Taking advantage of the alcohol in his system, he kissed her.
Once sober, he finally acted like a decent person. Chu Yining got her wish and became his girlfriend.
At the airport on the day he left the country, Chu Yining said, "Jiashu, I'm getting married."
As he always had, Ye Jiashu graciously congratulated her.
The plane bound for Boston hit severe turbulence and plunged sharply. Amid the passengers' screams, Ye Jiashu calmly watched the oxygen masks fall, thinking that dying wasn't so bad after all.
Childhood sweethearts, coming-of-age, happy ending
Theme: Sand held in your palm slips away between your fingers.
