The Wind Blows from Your Year

Cheng Jiayu never thought that Zhou Jiming, whom she had not seen for six years, would sit in her old seat on the first day of school. She recognized him at a glance, but she only politely called him by his full name; he acted as if nothing had happened, and just moved the textbook to the side, leaving half a table for her. Everyone thought they just happened to know each other. No one knew that they had made an appointment to meet at the old Qinghe station when they were children, and no one knew that the farewell that they did not wait for each other was remembered by both of them for a full six years. Later, they became deskmates and participated in the "Disappearing Linjiang" feature of the school magazine. She used a camera to record the streets and alleys that were about to disappear, and he used structural diagrams to help her understand the Old Bridge; she changed his Chinese answers from the instructions to humane ones, and he accompanied her to break down the math problems she was most afraid of one by one. The wind blew from the missed year, passed through six long years, and also passed through the brightest youth. This time, they didn't leave early.