Please Let Me Meet You Once More

At seventeen, in the height of summer, the evening breeze, the classroom, and the cicadas held Wen Yao's most heart-stirring secret. Her story with Shen Yi began at a sweltering high school, with a chance glance during class, shared earphones during evening study, and carefully orchestrated near-misses around campus. Tender, unspoken affection filled their youth, yet no one knew their story. When the college entrance exams were over, they set off for two entirely different cities. Mountains and rivers lay between them, and all contact was lost. The years of college passed in a flash, but Wen Yao could never let go of the feelings she'd carried since she was young. Over the long years, she wished countless times that they might meet again, that she could see that boy once more, make up for the feelings she never voiced, and give their regret-filled youth a perfect ending. She always thought there would be plenty of time, and that one day they would meet again. But life is unpredictable. When they finally crossed paths again after all these years, the boy who had once made her heart flutter had long since outgrown his youthful awkwardness. His eyes were still as gentle as ever, but at his side stood the woman who would share his life, and in his arms was an adorable little child. He had built a happy, settled family. Only then did Wen Yao finally understand: the unfinished romance of that summer had never been meant to have a sequel. The reunion she had longed for all those years was nothing more than an old dream, arriving too late and belonging to her alone. The feelings of her youth had become a lifelong regret.