School / Ensemble cast / Days gone by
Liang Xifan has tasted every kind of bitterness in her life.
Separation, parting, and being uprooted.
She has argued, and she has knelt down and begged.
Later, alone in a foreign land, abandoned by everyone, she lay in the hospital with an IV drip in her arm. The only thing she could remember was that winter.
The sky was deep blue, light snow had fallen, and the world was dark and gray.
Students in blue-and-white uniforms crowded the stairs and corridors.
She stood apart from the crowd, only looking at him from afar.
Li Xingran, the celebrated model student, walked through the crowd and stopped in front of her.
His skin was pale, his hair dark and soft.
He lit a cigarette right there at school without a care, the dark circles under his eyes lending him a worn-out air.
He stared at her silently for a long while, his eyes tinged red.
As the acrid smoke drifted away, he raised his brows slightly. “So you do know how to come back.”
It was 2011.
Beijing was still as damn cold as ever in winter.
Li Xingran was still full of youthful spirit, and Liang Xifan, fresh in the capital, was still dying to visit Shichahai.
There was still time to make everything right.
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She had asked him back in 2011.
“Li Xingran, why do you always take care of me?”
Even in 2021, his answer was still the same.
“It’s my mission.”
A mission.
A gentle voice.
The words landed solemnly in her heart.
One-on-one, both experiencing their first love
First draft: 22-11-08
Second draft: 23-1-25
Theme: A coming-of-age story about a boy and a girl.
