[Reunion After a Long Separation, A Woman's Secret Crush Comes True]
Gu Nanqiao found a Samoyed.
One day, while taking the dog out for a walk, she ran into the boy she'd secretly loved for three years in high school, Lu Yanzhi.
She was about to pretend not to see him and take another route, but the Samoyed wouldn't listen. It wrapped its paws around his leg and rubbed against him excitedly, eager to introduce her to him.
Gu Nanqiao: ...
She slowly raised her head and met a pair of cool, indifferent eyes.
They'd been apart for six years. She thought he didn't recognize her anymore.
Her longtime crush, Lu Yanzhi, slowly said, "Gu Nanqiao, are you the dog's owner?"
Only after adding him on WeChat did Gu Nanqiao find out that Lu Yanzhi had been the Samoyed's previous owner.
She saved his contact as: [My Little Dog].
He saved hers as: [The Dog's Owner].
The dog, who had gone missing a year earlier, had a new owner now, and Lu Yanzhi started frequently video-calling her to see it.
So Lu Yanzhi's roommate often heard the girl on the video call say:
"Put on the leash."
"No barking. Good dog."
Roommate: !!!
They're really going all out.
Missing the dog, Lu Yanzhi began showing up at her door again and again.
The first time he knocked, he said expressionlessly, "Give me my dog back."
Gu Nanqiao refused.
The second time, he brought a bag of dog food. "Can I come see it?"
Gu Nanqiao let him in.
The third time, he hesitated before asking, "Let's raise it together. I'll pay rent."
Gu Nanqiao: !!!
Six months into sharing a place, Gu Nanqiao had to move out because of a job change.
She thought it was time to end this unrealistic, nine-year-long secret crush.
Just like that evening after their high school graduation, Gu Nanqiao handed him the dog and said calmly, "I'm leaving. It isn't appropriate for us to live together."
But Lu Yanzhi's eyes reddened. He grabbed her wrist, his voice hoarse, and humbly begged her, "Gu Nanqiao, can you take me with you?"
"We've been apart for six years. I missed you."
Only later did she learn that her confession letter from six years ago had never reached him. Her youth had been one grand, secret crush.
One day, while moving, she found the yellowed letter.
She had once written: "In the summer of 2014, only the wind knew I liked you."
Below it, there were many more lines in different handwriting, each dated in a different year. They began in 2014 and ended in 2024.
He had written: "The wind knew you liked me, and the wind also knew I loved you."
[Every reunion after a long separation has been a long time coming.]
Theme: Learning to love life
