We Had a Promise

"We Had a Promise" He thought that fifteen years was enough to forget a person. But that person, for fifteen years, has never let go of that evening when he was seventeen. The first shooting assignment that Shen Yanqiu received after returning to China was to shoot the cover of Lu Shiyan, the youngest leader in the financial industry. The elevator door opened, the lens was raised, and the face in the viewfinder overlapped with the boy on the rooftop fifteen years ago. The scar on the brow bone was still there, and the look in his eyes was still there. He pretended not to remember. Lu Shiyan also pretended not to remember. Until he saw an old faded photo frame on Lu Shiyan's desk, which contained a photo of two teenagers at the school gate on their high school graduation day. Until he discovered the faded red rope on his wrist. Lu Shiyan also had one. Until he returned to his alma mater under the ginkgo tree and dug out the iron box he had buried fifteen years ago. Inside were two yellowed letters. His letter read: "Lu Shiyan, will you still remember me ten years from now?" Lu Shiyan's letter read: "I will always remember you." There is also a line of very small words on the back, written fifteen years ago—— "You must remember that we had a promise." Gong, the overbearing CEO who looks calm but is crazy on the inside × The photographer who is free and easy on the outside but sensitive on the inside · At the age of seventeen, they made a promise to "be together forever" on the school rooftop · At the age of eighteen, he went to New York without saying goodbye and stayed away for fifteen years · At the age of thirty-two, they reunited on both sides of the camera, one pretending to forget and the other pretending not to care · Until the iron box under the ginkgo tree is dug up, all the truths and longings buried by the years are revealed. "Thirty-two-year-old Lu Shiyan also recognizes what the seventeen-year-old Lu Shiyan said." After you left, I donated the library to my alma mater, named "Qiu Yan". Put your name and my name together, the wind can't blow them away, the rain can't rain them down, and no one can tear them apart. ——Lu Shiyan Food guide: 1. Reunion | Reunion after a long absence | Sour and sweet | HE 2. High school → urban dual-line narrative, campus memories and adult reunions intertwined 3. There is abuse and sweetness, slightly sour in the early stage, healing in the later stage, and a happy ending. 4. All promises will be fulfilled, and all waiting will have its return date. Purpose: Keep faith