Campus, angsty romance, realism
The Yangtze surges as the wind sweeps over the riverbank.
In a classroom in early autumn, when they were sixteen, a small umbrella opened the tightly closed hearts of two boys.
A reef stands still in a backwater pool, holding all the worries no one has anywhere to share.
They promise to watch the tides rise and fall together forever, and to attend the police academy.
Gu Nanfeng is a surging, ceaseless tide; He Zhiyi is a steady reef standing firm.
Their feelings are hidden in the dusk of late autumn in their final year of high school. On the reef, their hearts turn toward Zhiyi.
It was the dry season. On the reef, they hook their thumbs together and make a promise: there is time yet.
Gu Nanfeng x He Zhiyi
I consider this story fairly realistic, though it is still a novel and contains some fantasy. The reef was inspired by Toujiliang in Luzhou, Sichuan.
Weibo: @XiquanSeispring
Theme: Sit together on the reef and watch the great tide. The waters will not recede, and there is time yet.
