[I met you the way a coniferous forest meets the winter at latitude 60 degrees north.
The only green life allowed to exist in the bitter cold.]
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Just before leaving the country for university, Xu Tingzhi received an unsigned letter.
[Happy graduation. May your future be bright.]
The handwriting was graceful, like a girl’s. Xu Tingzhi thought nothing of it at the time and threw it away with the other love letters.
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Meng Zhiyi’s life followed the rules, like a clockwork mechanism that had never once gone wrong.
Until she met Xu Tingzhi. Her heart stirred, and she kept her feelings hidden for year after year.
Years later, during an interview in front of the cameras:
Meng Zhiyi laughed as she recalled an embarrassing story from her youth. “Does slipping a confession letter into your crush’s book, only for it to get thrown away as trash, count?”
The moment she said it, the whole room fell silent.
But unnoticed behind her, Xu Tingzhi had just returned from a forum. His clenched hand was taut with bulging veins.
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In everyone’s eyes, Professor Xu was cold and uncompromising, with standards so exacting at work that they called him a “flower on a high peak,” untouchable even by gods and Buddhas.
Yet on the night his African research expedition ended, Xu Tingzhi’s name shot to fame because of a paper. The reason was that the acknowledgments mentioned just one name:
[The coniferous forest stays green all year, but remains covered in snow for most of it.
Meng Zhiyi, ten thousand years is too long. Let’s seize the day.]
[Engineer × Geologist]
Gentle, independent girl × gifted young man with a youthful air
|Unrequited love from her|Reunion after years apart|High school to the city|
P.S. The opening line of the blurb is from the internet;
[Ten thousand years is too long. Let’s seize the day] is a famous quote.
This is the blurb for now. I’ll refine it more when I think of something else >_<
Theme: The future matters, but the right person belongs in yours
