When Xu Nian was packing up his old things, he turned over his high school graduation photos.
In the photo, Cheng Yu stood diagonally behind her, with the sunlight casting tiny shadows on his eyelashes. She suddenly remembered that after taking the photo that day, he stuffed a mint candy into her hand - just like he had done every time she was nervous in the past three years.
They had been such good friends.
He remembered that she didn't like cilantro and would buy ice water when he played ball. There have been countless moments between them: the hands held together during a power outage, the companionship of tutoring late into the night, the shoulders leaning together during the graduation trip...
But no one took that step.
Later they went to different cities. Once at a reunion of old classmates, they were chatting across the dining table, and the topic stopped at work and housing prices. It was raining lightly when the show ended. He opened the umbrella and hesitated for a moment, but finally just said: "Be careful on the road."
On the subway home, Xu Nian received a text message from an unknown number:
"Yesterday I was sorting through old books and found a small line of writing on page 134 of the book you borrowed from me."
She was stunned for a long time before she remembered——
That was "I like you" secretly written by my seventeen-year-old self.
Intention: miss