On the day the summer camp ended, He Zhixun stopped Lin Mu on the steps of the back hall of the main building of Tsinghua University: "Next semester, let's stay at the same table."
When the second year of high school started, they were actually assigned to the same class again. Although he was not her deskmate, he sat diagonally behind her. When she turned around to borrow notes, she could always meet his quiet gaze.
At the New Year's Day party that year, they were assigned to a group to decorate the classroom. When hanging the ribbons, he held on to the rickety chair, and she looked down at him from above: "He Zhixun, will you always be behind me?"
He raised his face and said, "No."
When she froze, he continued: "I'll come next to you."
In the summer after the college entrance examination, he called her: "Lin Mu, I received the notice from Tsinghua University."
There was silence for three seconds on the other end of the phone, and then her smiling voice came: "What a coincidence, I also have one from Peking University."
In September, there were four subway stops between Tsinghua University and Weiming Lake. Every Friday evening, he would appear by the window in the third reading room of the Peking University Library—the seat where they sat most often in high school.
"We are really roommates this time." She looked at the Tsinghua textbook he had spread out and drew a smiley face on the edge of the notebook.
Next to the smiley face he wrote: "This time will be for life."
Many years later, at a class reunion, someone asked them how they got together.
Lin Mu looked at the person next to him and said with a smile: "From the moment he said he wanted to be my deskmate——"
He Zhixun caught her words: "I never thought about separation again."
The luckiest thing in youth,
Someone starts from the position of "tablemate",
Step by step, I walked into the "rest of my life".
We met in that beautiful spring
But it will never end in that spring
Intention: I don't know