The untouchable beauty falls from his pedestal. Three-year age gap. A daily routine of winning back an ex after a breakup.
Cool-headed Go player x top-tier star
1.
Bai Qingyan, from the mathematics department at Yuehai University, is a living legend.
He won the world Go championship at nineteen. His aloof, otherworldly presence made every girl on campus swoon, but no one dared actually approach him. After all, according to rumor, his stern expression when he didn't smile was enough to make little kids passing by burst into tears.
But Qian Shi, from the arts department, didn't think so.
Qian Shi kept running into Bai Qingyan whenever she was in a mess: he caught her guitar worth tens of thousands before it hit the ground; outside the emergency room, he lent her the coin that saved her life; when her phone service was cut off, he generously helped her out...
After all those accidental encounters, the untouchable beauty in everyone else's eyes became the gentle man who made Qian Shi fall hard.
Until one day.
Qian Shi suddenly learned that Bai Qingyan was one of the "fish" in her best friend's pond, and everything came to an abrupt end.
2.
Five years later, beneath the stage at an awards ceremony.
Dressed in pale clothes and white trousers, Bai Qingyan smiled brightly, carrying the honor of a new world championship.
Even surrounded by stars, he remained the most dazzling one of all.
But Qian Shi, now a popular singer, could only turn and flee the moment she realized it was him.
3.
No one knew.
When Qian Shi was twenty, Bai Qingyan had already planned a future with her in it. Sadly, it was a dream that fell just one step short.
After they reunited, he persistently proposed to her once, twice, three times. Qian Shi firmly rejected him, rejected him again, and rejected him once more.
Until he was stranded alone in the snowy mountains of Mocheng, with no word from him for a month.
Qian Shi thought their long pursuit had finally come to an end, but then she received an old CD from Bai Qingyan.
It was the first return gift she had given him five years earlier, now newly recorded by him.
She heard the crisp, decisive sound of his Go stones in her ears. As she looked at the empty seat across the table, the more she imagined him still by her side, the more she regretted it.
At the end of the recording, a familiar male voice slowly spoke: "Five years, and I'm still waiting for you."
It answered the words she had hidden on the CD five years ago: "QING, I want to love you with all I've got!"
[All his waiting was for the moment he could make his move and promise himself to her.]
Theme: Love
