The Slow Arrival of Spring

At the age of twenty-seven, Hang Jinyi agreed to marry a man she had met only a few times.

He was gentle and courteous. After the wedding, they treated each other with respect and agreed that either of them could say so if they fell for someone else, and that their relationship could end at any time.

But later, she met up with an old acquaintance just a few times.

When she returned home, the man who was always so composed held her almost desperately, his head buried in the crook of her neck as he murmured:

“Jinyi, don’t fall for anyone else...”

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When their friends asked, “Was it love at first sight or did love grow over time?” they answered almost simultaneously.

Hang Jinyi: “Love that grew over time.”

Xie Jize: “Love at first sight.”

Hang Jinyi thought back to the first time they had met and asked him, “So you fell for me the first time you saw me in the recording studio?”

Xie Jize only smiled without answering.

Then one afternoon, Hang Jinyi found an old but well-preserved note in a box in the study.

The words, nearly faded away, were a dream she had carefully written down, stroke by stroke, when she was seventeen.

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At the college entrance exam pledging rally, Xie Jize found a fallen note beneath the target-university wall on the sports field. In a young woman’s elegant handwriting, it read: Jingsheng University, Hang Jinyi.

For that, he traveled hundreds of kilometers to come here, but Hang Jinyi was nowhere at Jingsheng.

Gentle yet resilient x A partner who knows how to guide

She falls in love after marriage / He turns his secret crush into reality / Happy ending

Theme: Love is a thousand days of spring sunshine.