When he was seventeen years old, he was sketching in an alley and she was walking past the sunset. He looked up at her, and she turned back. He remembered that one glance for five years.
Over five years he made countless sketches, each of them of the same girl. He didn't know her name, but he only knew that she came to the library every Thursday, liked to sit by the window, and would get sleepy while reading. He didn't dare to call her, thinking that he could see her from a distance.
Then he thought he would never see her again.
It wasn't until the barbecue restaurant near the university that she opened the door and walked in. She looked back at him - exactly the same as she had five years ago. He picked up the campus card she dropped, and his hands were shaking when he handed it over. She said thank you and turned away. He stood there, thinking that he couldn't miss it again this time.
This is a story about "seeing". He saw her seventeen-year-old back in the alley and her side face dozing off in the library. She saw the deep affection hidden in the sketchbook he had drawn for five years, and saw the solemnity with which he wrote her name on the real estate certificate.
There are no grudges between wealthy families, no partings between life and death. There were just two ordinary people living an ordinary life in an ordinary city. They would also quarrel, but after the quarrel someone would bow down first. They will also be afraid, but after they are afraid, they will hug you tighter.
He had been looking for her for five years. She waited for him for a year. They spent their entire lives saying "So you are here too" to each other.
If happiness had a color, it would probably be the orange-gold light on the horizon when they watched the sunset side by side.
This is not a splashy story. This is a story that makes you believe that there is someone in the world who is really waiting for you and will keep waiting.
Concept: If happiness had a color, it would probably be the orange-gold light on the horizon when they watched the sunset side by side.