Su Nuannuan's seventeenth year was like a silent, snow-covered wilderness. She struggled onward until she met Xu Chaoyang, whose seventeenth year was dark and violent.
She reached out to him, and he willingly took the blame for her for three years.
No one in the world knew that Xu Chaoyang liked Su Nuannuan.
When he saw her again, she had become a rising star in show business, basking in the spotlight, with the handsome and wealthy Second Young Master Cheng watching over her. He no longer had the right to stand by her side.
*
Everyone said that Cheng Wenjie and Su Nuannuan were in love, but only Cheng Wenjie knew the truth: he had waited for Su Nuannuan alone for five years, while she had waited for Xu Chaoyang for seven.
Cheng Wenjie couldn't understand what Su Nuannuan and Xu Chaoyang had shared at seventeen. Leaning against a weathered wall, he hid his sincerity behind a joke. “Really, you won't consider me? I'm so handsome. You'd be missing out!”
Su Nuannuan gazed out at the countless lights beyond the window and smiled. “I won't be missing out.”
She had never stopped moving forward. If Xu Chaoyang couldn't catch up, she would take their seventeen-year-old selves and sail into the distance alone.
*
Later, Su Nuannuan asked Xu Chaoyang, “What changed your mind?”
Xu Chaoyang gritted his teeth. “Cheng Wenjie called me a coward, and he made sure to remind me every single day!”
Su Nuannuan's eyes curved with a smile. “Is that the truth?”
Xu Chaoyang fell silent for a moment. “No. Being too far from you is cold.”
