In the season when the evening clouds turn rosy, Xu Luxi got into Ji Heng's car.
To make this chance encounter happen, she asked her advisor for leave, despite never missing class, and brought a bouquet of chrysanthemums to Beiling Cemetery.
The opening line she'd prepared was choked off by an absurd funeral.
Sunlight glinted behind Ji Heng, casting a tall, slender shadow.
With one hand in his pocket and a cigarette between the fingers of the other, he looked at her with a trace of amusement.
"What a coincidence. Are you here for Zebra's funeral too?"
She hid her flushed face behind the flowers, keeping her eyes on her toes. For a long time, she couldn't manage a single reply.
In the end, this barefaced, well-behaved girl was the one who settled into the passenger seat of a Koenigsegg.
A humid, flirtatious summer night.
A wet kiss before they were left breathless.
A weightless, lingering embrace beneath the stars, close enough to touch.
Ji Heng donated a Martian meteorite of major scientific value to the astronomy department at Peking University.
After he attended the university's awards ceremony in person, posts flooded the campus forum, all asking how to run into him.
He still had the same gift for setting hearts ablaze.
Xu Luxi stood outside a convenience store, untouched by the world's clamor as she took shelter from the rain. Her black hair was tied up beside her ear, and she reached out to catch the curtain of rain falling from the eaves.
A car horn sounded. The star of all the campus gossip looked at her through the window as it slowly rolled down.
Ji Heng: "Your boyfriend is so popular. Aren't you going to keep a closer eye on him?"
Theme: My love for you across the years, echoing a thousand times.
