That Summer We Were All Waiting For

The day he lost her, he was still carrying two boxes of hot milk. "Qin Jie, don't be angry" ——This is what he said countless times, and she finally stopped waiting. From the torn schoolbag in the classroom to the phrase "I didn't think about the future" in the heavy rain, two seventeen-year-olds, one forced the other to think about the future, while the other only dared to keep her in the painting. When we met again in Beijing two years later, he said, "I just want to coax you." She shook her head. "It's great that he finally stopped coaxing me. And I finally stopped waiting for him to coax me." This is about the clumsiest love in youth: you think he is making trouble, but in fact she just wants to say "I was wrong."