From Stranger to Goodbye

Outside the high school entrance examination room, Wen Ran stood in the rain holding an umbrella, watching the candidates of the class of 2026 pouring out of the school gate. One year ago today, he also walked out of that examination room. Now I am in my first year of high school, but I have come back here by accident - not to wait for anyone, but just to see the road I have been on for three years. Some people can go out for drinks and see their teachers after graduation, but the image of 42 people sitting neatly in the same classroom will never be seen again. Just as he was sighing, a cold voice sounded in his mind: "The host's strong regret emotion was detected. It meets the binding conditions of the 'Youth Chronicle' system." Wen Ran chose to accept it. When he opened his eyes again, he returned to September 1, 2022 - the first day of school in the first grade of junior high school. This is not a story about "defying fate and changing fate". Even if many things happened over again, they might still lead to the same ending: Lu Yizhou would still turn away, Peng Jinghuai would still smash the projection board, and it would still rain on the day of the high school entrance examination. Wen Ran came back with memories, not to overthrow everything, but to let those "everyone is there" moments stay for a while longer before the show was destined to end, to say the words that he had not had time to say, and to hold the missed hand in time. This story is written for every summer that will never come back. The meaning of youth is not that there are no regrets, but that even if we know the outcome, we still choose to live a good life. From stranger to goodbye. From goodbye to never leaving.