Yu Mingfeng never goes to family gatherings because she doesn't want to see her childhood friend, Huo Jianling.
Huo Jianling's mother was the best friend of Yu Mingfeng's mother. After his best friend married into the Huo family, he would come to the Yu family gatherings from time to time to join in the fun.
When asked about Yu Mingfeng by chance, her family always said, "My daughter is studying abroad."
"Then what does she plan to do after returning from studying abroad?"
Huo Jianling also recalled this childhood friend. She was thin, with yellow hair, and a face with no flesh. Others said that the child was not pleasing to look at, not as cute as the fleshy faces of other little girls.
The last time he saw Yu Mingfeng, when Yu Mingfeng appeared, he thought he had recognized the wrong person.
She is like the sun shining through the cracks in the bricks, dazzling and warm.
Much later, when Yu Mingfeng and Huo Jianling were together, Yu Mingfeng recalled his childhood and said, "When I was a child, I was ugly, but you were good-looking. Everyone said you would be a handsome guy in the future, and I was the ugly duckling."
"But we met in the end." Huo Jianling said, "You are very good-looking. When you get older, you will be more beautiful than me."
"I don't want to grow old with you."
Purpose: keeping one's word