Shen Nanxi, who moved here from central Sichuan, has been Song Ciyie's childhood sweetheart ever since they first met when she was three and offered him a milk candy. From then on, she followed him everywhere, hiding her crush in her WeChat username.
He was the most dazzling prodigy on the math olympiad circuit, and she was the little shadow who stuck to his side. They made a promise: when she turned eighteen on June 1, he would come to confess with a love letter and White Rabbit candies. They would both get into Peking University and never be apart.
But her eighteenth birthday became their final goodbye.
That day, he had the love letter tucked away and a bag of freshly bought candies in his arms. On his way to meet her, an out-of-control truck struck him, and he never woke up.
Everyone kept it from her: her parents, her teachers, and his family. They only wanted to protect her from anything that might affect her college entrance exams.
She waited foolishly for twelve days, thinking something had come up, thinking he was still getting ready to confess. Only after the exams were over did she hear her parents say,
