After the college entrance exams, Shi Nanyun's teacher, Tan Jun, announced her marriage on social media. Shi Nanyun spent two months trying to ease the ache in her heart, then left to attend university in another city.
For a year or two, their lives still overlapped. Then, for countless days afterward, Shi Nanyun did nothing but study and follow the rules. People around her fell in love in their twenties, as everyone knew, and found their place in a family or in business as they approached thirty. By comparison, she went through life in silence.
Except that she dreamed of Tan Jun a few times every month, sometimes happily, sometimes sadly, and woke up with an aching emptiness.
She often thought she was still trapped in that high school building where she'd spent her senior year.
Then one day, Tan Jun contacted her first. The moment Shi Nanyun saw the familiar profile picture pop up, her heart gave a quick, hard thump.
She opened the chat and found a link to download an app: a Pinduoduo referral link.
As she read, she smiled. Her eyes turned red at the corners. She sat alone all night, stunned, tears streaming down her face.
After that, the few words they exchanged were limited to polite formalities. Shi Nanyun gradually let go, but she still couldn't take an interest in anyone, or rather, she never liked anyone that much. In the long years ahead, she vaguely remembered going through her whole life alone.
When she opened her eyes again, everything in her high school life was just as it had been... In the classroom building, emptied out at dusk, someone gently tapped the sleeping girl. She opened her eyes, drowsy. With the bitter winter wind came a familiar scent from Tan Jun, and a tear slipped down, strange and without warning.
"...Teacher."
'Ajun...'
Cool, steadfast, delicate flower x warm, sensible older woman
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