When Xia Jin was 18 years old, she thought "like" was the tip of a strawberry.
Later, when she was 25 years old and met Lu Huanian again, she realized that "love" is a whole strawberry, no matter how sour it is, she will swallow it.
She once thought their story ended in that midsummer——
"There is no need for us to keep in touch," she said.
He was silent for a few seconds and then responded softly: "Yes."
——Then, she became a policeman, and he became someone she could no longer touch.
When we met again, he was leaning against the wall, his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, and he no longer had the pride of being seventeen years old in his eyes.
She called him: "Lu Huanian."
He lit a cigarette and said with indifferent eyes: "Officer Xia, you have recognized the wrong person."
She stood in the light, and he sank in the shadow.
But she always knew that he was hotter than summer.
——
Lu Huanian once thought that he could let go and stop contacting her as she wished.
But he couldn't do it.
She went to work as a police officer, and he watched from a distance. She was busy at the crime scene, and he was standing in the crowd. She stopped occasionally, with an unprecedented tiredness in her brows, but he felt so distressed that he didn't even have the qualifications to step forward and hand him a bottle of water.
He watched her go further and further away, but he chose to stand in the shadows, guarding the traces she had left.
Years later she discovered him and she called him by name, but he could only pretend not to recognize her.
But he still habitually remembers that she loves to eat coriander, eats spicy hotpot without hemp, and even knows better than she does when she comes home from overtime work.
He never left, he just changed his approach and stayed behind her.
She stood in the light, and he sank in the shadow.
But as long as she looks back, he will always be waiting there.
Gentle female protagonist × Paranoid and stubborn male protagonist
Intention: Even if you are in the mire, you can still run towards the light.