Gazing at You Across Time

In her first year of college, the school lets out early for vacation, so Mu Xu decides to work at her aunt's bookstore. There, she unexpectedly runs into her first love, whom she hasn't seen in four years. She plans to pretend she doesn't know him, but he clings to her as if he has no intention of letting her go and insists on getting her contact information. He claims it's so they can go cheer on a middle school classmate who is repeating a year. In the end, she quickly gives in to his relentless pursuit.

Two years later, he sits across from her in a cafe, leaning to block the sunlight streaming in. He gives her the reassurance she needs as she hesitates, telling her not to agonize over it: if she wants to pursue a master's degree, he'll go with her; if she wants to graduate, he'll marry her.

If Lu Yanxu had never met her, perhaps he really would have spent his life just getting by. But since fate brought them together, he would summon every ounce of courage he had to win them a stretch of time without regrets.

"I'm not afraid of gazing at you forever from afar. I'm only afraid that, because of my cowardice, all I'll have left is the memory of you in the passage of time."