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It took him 30 years to learn to say "I like", but she spent her whole life waiting for "I'm here". Fei Cai and Li Xinyue were childhood sweethearts. He clumsily guarded them in high school, and silently accompanied them in college. A piece of matcha melaleuca and an umbrella held up in the rain were all silent confessions. He thought "dropping in" meant affection, and she thought "silence" meant rejection. It wasn't until three years after she died that he returned to China and read the diary filled with love, the belated letter, and the watch engraved with his name from the box she left behind - it turned out that she had loved him a long time ago, but he didn't understand it. The most painful regret is not missing it, but that I have always been here, but you thought I never came.