[The only time he was brave in his youth, she turned into a joke in front of the whole class.]
Fang Shujin had always thought Ke Jiaheng was a strange person.
He was quiet and gloomy, a blurry shadow in the back row of the classroom.
But he would always happen to bring an extra umbrella, or casually leave a White Rabbit candy at the corner of her desk.
Everyone saw through his secret, except her.
Or rather, except for the truth she deliberately ignored, a truth that was practically begging to be spoken.
At the graduation party, the pointer in Truth or Dare landed on him.
Amid the shouts and cheers, Ke Jiaheng walked up to her. The light in his eyes was so hot it seemed ready to catch fire.
Fang Shujin panicked and doused his flames in front of everyone with a careless joke:
"Wow, Ke Jiaheng, you're quite the actor!"
At that moment, she watched the stars in his eyes plummet from the sky.
Later, they went their separate ways.
Later, she finally understood that the passionate love no one knew about in their youth had, thanks to her careless words, hardened into a scab called regret that would never fade.
Years later, at their class reunion, he arrived with his partner, smiling with warm reserve.
When a friend teased him about the past, he took a sip of wine and answered lightly,
"Oh, that? We were young and foolish."
Fang Shujin gazed at him and suddenly understood everything.
Some wounds may seem healed, but they have only found a different way to settle permanently in someone's heart.
Theme: May someone love you, enduringly and without end
