Gazing at the Green Mountains

Tan Jiang was bullied relentlessly at school as a child. After graduating from university, she changed her name, entered a combined master's and PhD program, helped her advisor supervise graduate students in her second year, and was hired by the university as a lecturer right after graduating in her third year.

She was her advisor's last disciple, a beautiful and confident young teacher, a promising literature PhD, and the official interpreter for the French Culture Year in Yuncheng.

Her wallet might not have gotten any fatter yet, but at least she could hold her head high.

Full of hope, she landed in the city she had known as a child with the team led by her advisor.

Her luck had finally turned. Even the person who had bullied her the most apologized and asked her out.

According to the script of a wish-fulfillment novel, Tan Jiang should have pretended to agree, won his heart, then trampled him underfoot and scorned him, watching him suffer with remorse.

Instead, after thanking him and apologizing, she fled in a panic again.

She thought she had recovered from the trauma of being bullied as a child. But when someone from her memories appeared, the mask she had painstakingly maintained crumbled, and she was thrown back to who she used to be.

At school, Tan Jiang never dared to fight back against her bullies, yet she had superhuman courage when it came to falling for the most popular boy in class.

She only wanted a secret crush. She had no desire to confess like everyone else.

Later, she transferred schools midway through the year. Everyone told her that the place she was going was her hometown, but in her heart she thought: This is clearly a foreign land.

Everyone said they were doing it for her own good, but how many of them actually wanted her to be happy?

She grew up, and her ties to the past grew faint. By the time she wanted to confess, she couldn't anymore.

But somehow, fate gave her another chance.

To talk and chat with him, to see him face-to-face every day, to like him without holding back...

Seventeen years later, all of that came true.

Other people's feelings could never sway Song Roushan, because he knew exactly what kind of lover he wanted.

As spring turned to autumn, only being with her made life meaningful.

The one regret was that he never got to say goodbye.

Without a goodbye, surely they could meet again.

Let's go! Let's set off to find her, tell her everything, and give her all that he had.

The red beans grow in the southern land; this is the thing that makes one yearn the most.

They still had a long, long time to spend together, and many, many gifts to give each other.

Day after day, year after year.

They say that a person's feelings are the only thing in this world that cannot withstand the wear of time.

Qi Ran never believed it.

But she had no choice. She had spent the entire first half of her life waiting for someone, only to never receive a response.

Now she believed it.

From the day she came to her senses, she made peace with herself.

She chose to let him go, and to set herself free.

Theme: When you are here, I love you amid the sea of people; when you are gone, I still love you in the flood of time. Even the most clichéd love shines brilliantly because of you.