On freshman registration day, Zhao Anming knocked over Cheng Xiaoling's paint box with his suitcase.
As colorful paints splashed across her white shirt, he memorized the sight of cobalt-blue tears clinging to her eyelashes.
On the painting club's recruitment day, they both recognized the embarrassing scene from that day in each other's sketchbooks.
He drew her paint-splattered face, while she drew him apologizing in a panic.
On the day they received their job offers in their senior year, he clasped her hand and couldn't speak for a long time.
"Our painting isn't finished yet," Cheng Xiaoling said, pointing to the oil painting they'd been working on together in the clubroom.
At the center of the canvas, two paintbrushes clasped together crossed a map of China painted in colors that had yet to dry.
Theme: Embrace youth, and bid it farewell.
