After Dreaming of You

She told him, I had a dream, you were very kind to me in the dream, and I want to fall in love with you in the dream. He replied "Yeah" expressionlessly, wondering if this person was sick. Then things started to get out of control. The movie she chose happened to be by his favorite director. She ordered milk tea with 30% sugar on ice and crispy pop. She even knew the mole on his collarbone hidden under his collar. It took him a long time to understand that the so-called "spring dream" might just be an excuse she made up. But it was never that dream that moved him. It was the sauced pork buns she queued up to buy at six o'clock every morning, it was her wearing his sweatshirt on the court who shouted until she became hoarse, it was her silent tears when she squatted on the floor in the study room to pick up his high school diary, it was her holding his hand in front of two families and saying "I am where he is." "Brother Lin Yu, you are a hundred times better than in your dreams." Ginkgo trees turn yellow and fall. They walked from the campus to the rental house, from "just this once" to "every day counts." If love is a dream, then he hopes he will never wake up in this life.