Rupert's Drop

By chance, Bai Yu ran into Wu Mingsheng at a class reunion she'd turned down several times. Years earlier, she'd stood him up.

They didn't say a single word to each other throughout the reunion, acting like complete strangers who'd just happened to meet.

One evening, Bai Yu happened to see Wu Mingsheng asking in their class group chat: [Friends, did any of you find anything at dinner the other day?]

Classmate A replied: [Did you lose something? What was it?]

Wu Mingsheng: [A wallet.]

Classmate B: [Did you have a lot of money in it? Or was the wallet itself especially important?]

It was a long time before Wu Mingsheng's brief reply appeared on the screen: [It wasn't important.]

At that moment, Bai Yu was taking the wallet out of a drawer. Her fingers paused as she looked at a certain photo inside, then quietly put it back.

Later, Wu Mingsheng spotted the wallet he'd lost long ago in her home and asked, "So it was here with you. Why didn't you return it?"

Bai Yu stared silently at him. Her eyes were dark, and her tone utterly cold. "Didn't you say it wasn't important?"

Wu Mingsheng immediately sensed trouble and hurriedly said, "I just said that off the cuff."

Bai Yu was quiet for a moment, then asked, "Is that so?" With that, she turned and went back to her room.

That night, Wu Mingsheng asked his friends in the group chat: [I lost a wallet with a photo of my girlfriend in it, then said it wasn't important. My girlfriend found out. How do I fix this?]

After the group spent a while gleefully making fun of him, someone finally offered some helpful advice: [There's no fixing it. Eat your fill and get ready to die.]

Wu Mingsheng: [...]

He took a deep breath, walked to the bedroom door, and knocked softly.

There was no response from inside. She clearly didn't want to talk to him.

Wu Mingsheng knocked again and shouted toward the room:

"Honey, I was wrong."

*

Bai Yu had always believed Wu Mingsheng's heart was like Rupert's drop: impossible to break through or get inside.

Until she grabbed him by his little tail.

A cool, chaste male airline pilot (not really) VS a gentle, restrained female research scientist (really)

All these years, loving you has always been something I've done with the utmost care.

One-on-one, happy ending

Theme: The sun, moon, and stars, the vastness of the world, and the eternity of wisdom