Her Fork in the Road, His Way Back

She chose the safest path and was surrounded by a clearly planned future. It wasn't until she deviated step by step from the track set by everyone that she discovered that someone had already regarded "following her" as their only career blueprint. --- "Qiu Li, you don't have me in your future, it doesn't matter." "But I can't live without you in my future." Everyone, including herself, thought that the cold and outstanding Qiu Li would eventually end up with the rational and self-disciplined Xu Qichi. He planned a clear path, and she followed him at first, but in the gentle Jiangnan water town, she breathed the free air for the first time, and her heart quietly wandered. Until that fateful quarrel in senior year—— "Teaching for two years? Qiu Li, you are cutting off your future with your own hands!" He said heartbrokenly. "Xu Qichi, this is not a cut off," she said calmly and firmly for the first time, "this is my 'beginning'." He finally chose Beijing and a bright future that he could not afford to lose. And Tan Yao, who always had a cynical smile in high school and seemed to be out of tune, decided to turn around when he first showed his talents in the business world and had a bright future. When Qiu Li's teaching period in the mountains of Yunnan ended and he decided to stay forever and become the children's real "Teacher Qiu", a "rural revitalization pilot project" led by him "happened" to land in Yunwu Village. The reunion began with an unexpected violent mountain rain. On the first day of the project inspection, he "lost" under the dilapidated roof of her school. He was soaked to the skin and in a state of embarrassment, but his eyes were burning with a fire that was hotter and calmer than before.