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I. First Impression
Lin Wanwan, who was thirteen years old, first noticed Chen Yu at the flag-raising ceremony in the second week of her first year of junior high school.
The September sun still carried the heat of summer, and the playground was filled with students in baggy school uniforms. Lin Wanwan, as the class’s academic representative, stood at the front of the line, clutching this week’s class discipline score sheet in her hand. Suddenly, a small commotion arose behind her. She turned her head slightly and caught a glimpse of several boys shoving someone and whispering jeers.
The boy who was pushed forward was tall for his age, thin, with his school uniform sleeves rolled up to his elbows, revealing a section of his evenly tanned forearm. He had no expression, and wasn’t annoyed at being pushed forward. He just lazily raised his hand to brush away the stray hairs on his forehead, and then — yawned.
Lin Wanwan silently gave him a score in her mind: one point deducted for discipline.
But she had to admit, his face was indeed beautiful. Not the kind of beauty that was so exquisitely refined it was unrealistic, but a comfortable, pleasing beauty — high brow bones, a straight nose, a sharp jawline, and eyes that, though not large, were dark and bright, like the sky untouched by artificial light on a deep winter night. He finished yawning, seemed to sense her gaze, and lazily swept his eyes over, meeting hers for a second.
Lin Wanwan quickly turned back and gripped the score sheet even tighter.
Later she learned that the boy’s name was Chen Yu, and his seat was in the last row of the classroom, in the corner by the window. His grades were consistently among the bottom fifteen in the class. He would either sleep or daydream in class, and occasionally when the teacher called on him to answer a question, he would stand up, remain silent for three seconds, and then frankly say, ” I don’t know . ” He was a frequent visitor to the homeroom teacher’s office and a frequent topic of conversation among the teachers of various subjects when they sighed in their offices.
Yet, he wasn’t like a truly bad student. He didn’t fight, skip classes, or talk back to teachers; he simply possessed a natural, almost stubborn, indifference towards studying. When asked why he didn’t study, he thought for a moment and said very seriously, ” It’s not that I don’t want to study, it’s just that I feel like the words in the textbook start to float away after looking at them for a while. “
When this answer reached Lin Wanwan’s ears, she was organizing her English notes. Her pen paused for a moment as she thought: What a strange excuse.
II. Close to
The two of them truly began to cross paths in the winter of their second year of junior high school.
The school was running a ” one-on-one mentoring ” program, where each high-achieving student was to help a struggling student. Lin Wanwan was the class monitor and academic representative, so she should have chosen the student who needed help the most. However, before the homeroom teacher could even assign the students, Chen Yu walked up to her desk one day after school, carrying his backpack, and looked down at her.
” Lin Wanwan, ” he called her name, the last syllable lingering, ” please help me. “
Lin Wanwan looked up at him; in the backlight, his silhouette was outlined with a fuzzy edge by the dim classroom light. She asked, ” Why did you look for me? “
” Because you have the best grades in the class, ” he said matter-of-factly, then paused and added, ” and you don’t swear when you explain problems. “
This reason made Lin Wanwan want to laugh. She had indeed seen other classmates explain problems to Chen Yu, and when they still couldn’t understand after being explained twice, they would get so angry that they would slam their fists on the table. Chen Yu, however, would not get angry; he would just blink innocently, with an expression that said, ” I can’t help it . “
” Okay. ” She capped her pen. ” Every Tuesday and Thursday after school, in the classroom. No lateness allowed. “
Chen Yu nodded, turned and left. He walked to the classroom door, then turned back, took a milk candy from his pocket, placed it on her desk, said nothing, and turned to leave again.
Lin Wanwan didn’t eat that candy; she kept it in her pencil case for the entire semester, until the wrapper became worn and scratched.
The assistance officially began that winter. Lin Wanwan soon discovered that Chen Yu wasn’t stupid; he really was — in his own words — the words in his textbooks seemed to float. He was fine with Chinese and English, but when it came to math and physics, those formulas and symbols were like a swarm of unruly ants to him, never managing to line up correctly.
But he was trying. This was something Lin Wanwan hadn’t expected.
He was never late for his tutoring sessions every Tuesday and Thursday, and occasionally he would even arrive ten minutes early. He would sit quietly in his seat and review the mistakes he had made last time. He wrote slowly, each stroke deliberate, as if he were struggling with every single character. If he encountered something he truly didn’t understand, he would gently poke Lin Wanwan’s elbow with the cap of his pen. Once she turned around, he would push the notebook towards her, point to a particular line, and whisper, ” Here, let me explain it again, just once. “
Sometimes, even after Lin Wanwan explained something three times, he still seemed to only vaguely understand, and she couldn’t help but sigh. At these times, Chen Yu would quiet down, not urging her, but simply looking down at the problem, his brows slightly furrowed, his lips pressed into a thin line. His profile looked much more focused and handsome than usual.
Once, when explaining a quadratic function application problem, Lin Wanwan explained it in three different ways. Chen Yu finally understood, his eyes lighting up as if someone had lit a lamp in his brain. He smiled, revealing a small canine tooth, and said, ” Lin Wanwan, do you know magic? “
Lin Wanwan turned her head away, pretending to tidy up the test papers on the table, her ears turning slightly red.
“ You don’t have magic, ” she said, “ but you’ve finally started using your brain. ”
III. Rumors
Starting in the second semester of the second year of junior high school, some rumors began to circulate in the class.
Some people say that Lin Wanwan and Chen Yu are dating. Some people saw them walking together after school. Some people say that Chen Yu slipped a love letter into Lin Wanwan’s pencil case (which was actually just a piece of candy). Some people even said with certainty that they saw them ” holding hands ” at a bubble tea shop (which was later confirmed to be just Chen Yu helping Lin Wanwan carry her shopping bag and their fingers just touched).
Lin Wanwan ignored all these rumors, and Chen Yu didn’t care either — he didn’t even care about his own exam results, so why would he care what others said?
But they did start walking home from school together.
The incident began when Chen Yu noticed that there was a dark alley on Lin Wanwan’s way home without streetlights, and he happened to be taking that same route. He said, ” It’s on the same route, it’ll be safer if we walk together. ” Lin Wanwan wanted to say that it wasn’t necessary, but after looking at the dark alley, she swallowed her refusal.
So every evening after self-study, the two of them would walk out of the school gate one after the other, keeping a half-step distance between them, walking under the dim streetlights. Chen Yu didn’t talk much, and Lin Wanwan wasn’t one to chat idly either. Most of the time, the two of them would walk quietly, with only the sound of their footsteps and the occasional car horn in the distance.
Occasionally, Chen Yu would suddenly speak up, saying things that seemed completely unrelated. For example, ” Look at the moon tonight, doesn’t it look like a pancake that’s been bitten? ” or ” I had a dream yesterday that all the numbers on my math test turned into crabs and were crawling around everywhere . ” Lin Wanwan was amused by his strange remarks, but she was too embarrassed to laugh out loud, so she just lowered her head, her shoulders trembling slightly.
Chen Yu noticed her trembling shoulders but didn’t point it out. He just smiled and continued walking.
One rainy day after school, neither of them had brought an umbrella, so they huddled under the eaves of the gatehouse at the school entrance, waiting for the rain to stop. The rain was heavy, and the splashing water soaked Lin Wanwan’s canvas shoes. Chen Yu glanced at her, took off his school uniform jacket, and without saying a word, put it over both of their heads.
“ Run! ” he said.
Before Lin Wanwan could react, he grabbed her arm and pulled her into the rain. His school uniform jacket wasn’t big, and the two were very close. Lin Wanwan could smell the faint scent of laundry detergent on him, like a morning breeze. Her shoulder was pressed against his arm, and she could feel the slight warmth emanating from his body even through his clothes.
They ran to a bus stop, both of them soaked to the bone. Chen Yu’s hair was plastered to his forehead, water droplets dripping from the ends. He reached up and swept his hair back, revealing a smooth forehead, making him look several years older. He turned to look at Lin Wanwan and noticed that her bangs were wet and clumped together, sticking to her forehead like a kitten caught in the rain.
He suddenly smiled, a very soft smile, his eyes reflecting the neon lights of the shops across the street.
“ Lin Wanwan, ” he said, “ you look really ugly. ”
Lin Wanwan glared at him and reached out to hit him, but he nimbly dodged her. The two chased each other for a couple of steps under the bus stop, then stopped at the same time, looked at each other, and both laughed.
The rain was loud, the laughter was soft, but in that instant, the seventeen-year-old boy and the sixteen-year-old girl both knew that something was different.
IV. The Storm of the Third Year of Junior High
On the first day of the third year of junior high school, the homeroom teacher, Ms. Wang, called Lin Wanwan to her office.
Ms. Wang was a middle-aged woman in her early forties who taught math. She wore gold-rimmed glasses and spoke slowly and deliberately, but every word carried weight. She asked Lin Wanwan to sit down, poured her a glass of water, and then remained silent for a while.
“ Wanwan, ” she began, “ you are the most promising student I have ever taught. With your grades, you’ll be in the top class at No. 1 High School, no problem. ”
Lin Wanwan nodded, wondering what the teacher wanted to say.
“ But, ” Teacher Wang took off her glasses and wiped them, her tone becoming somewhat hesitant, “ I heard … you’ve been getting quite close to Chen Yu lately? ”
Lin Wanwan’s fingers tightened slightly, but she remained silent.
Teacher Wang sighed: ” Wanwan, I’m not the kind of old-fashioned teacher. I understand kids your age … but you need to think this through. You’re in your final year of junior high, and the high school entrance exam is a hurdle. Chen Yu isn’t a bad person, but his grades …”
“ He’s improving. ” Lin Wanwan suddenly spoke, her voice soft but firm. “ Teacher, he got 72 on his math final exam last semester; he’d never passed before. ”
Teacher Wang looked at her with a complicated expression: ” Wanwan, I’m not saying Chen Yu is bad. I’m worried about you. You’re a child who sets high standards for yourself. You should focus your energy on yourself, not …”
She didn’t finish her sentence, but Lin Wanwan understood.
As Lin Wanwan walked out of the office, she stood in the corridor for a long time. The autumn wind blew in through the window, chilly, and she hugged her arms tightly, feeling a vague sense of grievance.
Similar incidents occurred repeatedly in the days that followed. Not only Ms. Wang, but the English teacher also made veiled remarks in class, saying, ” Some female students shouldn’t be led astray by certain people . ” Even Lin Wanwan’s mother called the homeroom teacher to subtly inquire whether her daughter had recently ” made friends she shouldn’t have . “
Pressure is like an invisible net, slowly tightening.
Chen Yu wasn’t unaware of these things. He had been at the school for over two years and knew the teachers’ ways of doing things very well. He began to deliberately keep his distance from Lin Wanwan — tutoring continued as usual, but they no longer walked together after school, he no longer borrowed notes from her during breaks, and they even deliberately staggered their meal times at the cafeteria.
Lin Wanwan noticed his change but didn’t say anything. However, one day after tutoring, she suddenly closed her book, looked into Chen Yu’s eyes, and said, ” Are you thinking of giving up? “
Chen Yu paused for a moment, then shook his head: ” No. “
” Then why are you avoiding me? “
Chen Yu remained silent for a long time. The sunset outside the window turned half the sky orange-red, and the light shone on his profile, creating a play of light and shadow.
“ I don’t want to hurt you, ” he finally said, his voice low. “ They’re right, you’re aiming for the top high school, and I can’t hold you back. ”
” Who said you’re holding me back? ” Lin Wanwan’s tone suddenly became sharp, startling even herself. She took a deep breath, calmed herself, and then said, ” Chen Yu, listen to me. Your foundation is indeed weak, but it’s not that you can’t learn. You’re just … a little slower than others. Being a little slower is okay, we can start earlier. “
She pulled a piece of paper from her schoolbag , a detailed tutoring plan she had prepared during the summer vacation , outlining the learning content, practice tasks, and review progress for each day from the start of the third year of junior high school until the high school entrance examination.
Chen Yu looked at the table, his Adam’s apple bobbing.
“ If you really don’t want to be a burden to me, ” Lin Wanwan pushed the watch in front of him, “ then study hard. Getting into a top high school will be more useful than hiding from me. ”
The classroom was quiet, so quiet that you could hear the dripping of a faucet at the end of the corridor. Chen Yu looked down at the watch, not moving for a long time. Then he reached out, picked up the watch, folded it, and put it in the inside pocket of his school uniform.
“ Okay, ” he said, his voice a little hoarse. “ I’ll learn. ”
V. That Winter
From that day on, Chen Yu seemed like a different person.
To be precise, he was like a machine whose engine had been restarted. Although it started up a bit slowly, once it was running, it had a tenacity that could not be ignored.
He gets up at 5:30 every morning, an hour earlier than usual, to review what he learned the night before. His notebook, which used to be empty, is now filled with pages — his handwriting is still messy, but he has copied every formula and theorem neatly more than three times. His knuckles are slightly red from holding a pen for long periods, and a thin callus has formed on the side of his middle finger.
Mathematics was his most dreaded subject. Lin Wanwan taught him a method — copy every wrong problem into a notebook, mark the wrong step in red, and write the correct solution in blue. In the first month, he used two notebooks for his mistakes. But gradually, the red ink became less and less, and the blue ink became more and more neat.
Physics was also a major hurdle. Lin Wanwan noticed his difficulty in understanding abstract concepts, so she used everyday examples to illustrate them. When explaining pressure, she had him stand on a scale, then stand on one foot, and asked him why the reading had changed. Chen Yu looked down at the numbers on the scale, then suddenly seemed to understand, looking up at her with bright eyes.
” You’re really amazing, ” he said, his tone filled with pure admiration.
Lin Wanwan felt a little uncomfortable under his gaze, and turned a page of her book: ” It’s not that I’m amazing, it’s that you’ve finally decided to think about it. “
On the day the final exam results came out, Chen Yu stood in front of the report card for a long time. His class ranking rose from thirteenth from the bottom to thirty – first out of fifty-two students. He scored seventy-eight in math, sixty-five in physics, and an unprecedented seventy-one in English.
When Teacher Wang saw the report card in the office, she remained silent for a long time before finally saying, ” It seems Chen Yu has really finally seen the light. “
No one knew that every night that winter, Lin Wanwan’s desk lamp stayed on very late. After finishing her own homework, she would spend an hour preparing the problems she would explain to Chen Yu the next day. She would do each problem in advance, think of at least two ways to explain it, and use different colored pens to mark the common mistakes and the solution process.
One night, her mother got up to get a drink of water and saw that the light in her room was still on. She pushed the door open and found her asleep on the table with a stack of handwritten exercise books under her face. The cover had two words written on it: Chen Yu.
Her mother stood there for a long time, then gently draped a coat over her shoulders, sighed, and said nothing.
VI. Junior High School Entrance Examination
A month before the high school entrance exam, the entire third year of junior high school was shrouded in a tense atmosphere.
Chen Yu’s pressure visibly increased. He began to suffer from insomnia, the dark circles under his eyes grew heavier, and he lost weight. Already a man of few words, he became even more silent, occasionally drifting off during tutoring sessions, staring blankly at the test paper, his pen hovering over the paper, unable to make a move.
Lin Wanwan saw this and was anxious. One day after tutoring, instead of packing up and leaving as usual, she sat in her seat and quietly watched him.
“ Chen Yu, ” she said, “ what are you afraid of? ”
Chen Yu was silent for a moment, then said something that made her heart tighten.
” I’m afraid I won’t pass the exam. “
It wasn’t ” fear of not doing well on the exam , ” it was ” fear of not getting into any school at all. ” He knew that if they didn’t get into the same top high school, the distance between them wouldn’t be as simple as just being in the same alley or class. Three years of high school, different schools, different circles, different paces — he had seen too many middle school couples break up because of college entrance exams.
He didn’t want to be one of those examples.
Lin Wanwan understood the meaning behind his words, and her heart skipped a beat. She lowered her head, looked at the test paper spread out on the table, and after a long while, she said:
” You won’t fail the exam. “
Her tone was calm, as calm as stating a fact. Then she raised her head, looked him in the eyes, and said earnestly, ” Because you are someone I taught. My students never go wrong. “
Looking at her expression, Chen Yu suddenly smiled. It wasn’t a lazy, nonchalant smile, but a genuine smile that carried a sense of relief and tenderness.
“ Okay, ” he said, “ then I’ll try not to be the worst student you’ve ever taught. ”
The two days of the high school entrance exam were sweltering, like a sauna. Lin Wanwan and Chen Yu didn’t take the exam in the same room, but every morning before entering the school gate, they would meet under the old locust tree by the playground. Chen Yu would always hand her a bottle of ice water, the bottle covered with fine water droplets, cool and refreshing.
“ Don’t be nervous, ” he said. “ You’re Lin Wanwan, you can do anything. ”
Lin Wanwan took the water and handed him a milk candy — just like the one he had placed on her desk a long time ago.
“ Don’t be nervous, ” she said. “ If you can’t do it, no one else can either. ”
Then they each turned around and walked into different examination rooms, into the exam that would determine whether they could continue to work together for the next three years.
On the afternoon after her last exam, Lin Wanwan walked out of the exam hall, the sunlight so bright it made her squint. She saw Chen Yu already standing under the old locust tree, his school uniform billowing in the wind, holding two bottles of iced tea.
He saw her, walked over, and handed her one of the bottles.
” How did you do on the exam? ” she asked.
“ It’s alright, ” he said, pausing for a moment, “but I couldn’t solve the second part of the last big math problem. ”
“ That question was really difficult, ” Lin Wanwan said. “ I thought about it for a long time. ”
The two walked out of the school gate side by side, followed by a bustling crowd of examinees and their parents, with the bright June sun shining overhead. When they reached the school gate, Chen Yu suddenly stopped.
“ Lin Wanwan, ” he said, “ thank you, no matter the outcome. ”
His tone was very serious, so serious that it didn’t seem like that of a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy. Lin Wanwan looked at his profile illuminated by the sunlight and suddenly felt a lump in her throat.
“ You’re welcome, ” she said, her voice trembling slightly, “ you deserve it. ”
VII. Results
On the day the results were released, Lin Wanwan was restless at home all day.
She wasn’t actually worried about her own grades — based on her estimated scores, she was guaranteed a spot in the top class at the high school. What worried her was Chen Yu.
At 3 PM, the results were finally available. She had just picked up her phone when the screen lit up—it was a message from Chen Yu.
” Math 89 , Physics 78 , English 82 , Chinese 91 , Total 340. The honors class … Is that enough? “
Lin Wanwan stared at the number and quickly did a mental calculation — based on previous years’ cutoff scores, this score was just barely enough to get into the top class, but it was definitely enough. She breathed a sigh of relief and typed rapidly: ” Enough! Enough, enough! You’re amazing! “
It took them a long time to reply with a message.
” Lin Wanwan, did you tamper with the test paper? “
Lin Wanwan’s fingers froze on the screen.
She didn’t expect him to find out.
She did indeed tamper with the last major question on the middle school entrance exam in mathematics. Not by altering the exam paper — she didn’t have the audacity or the ability. Rather, during the final week of tutoring before the exam, she repeatedly explained the last major question from a set of ” practice exam papers ” that she had spent a long time obtaining to Chen Yu four times, until he could solve it independently.
The source of that set of ” practice exam papers ” was that she traded her qualification to participate in the provincial mathematics competition with her competition instructor . She promised the instructor that she would give up the competition training and give her spot to another classmate. In exchange, the instructor gave her a set of review materials that were said to be ” very valuable ” .
She never told Chen Yu about it. She didn’t tell anyone either.
“ I don’t know what you’re talking about, ” she replied.
“ You know that, ” Chen Yu replied quickly, “ that question, and the last question in the fourth practice test you explained to me, the numbers haven’t been changed. ”
Lin Wanwan stared at the screen, her heart pounding.
“ I didn’t cheat on the exam, ” she finally replied. “ I just … guessed the questions correctly. That’s skill, not cheating. ”
This time, news of Chen Yu came much later than expected.
” Lin Wanwan, did you give up something for me? “
She didn’t answer the question. She simply said, ” Chen Yu, you passed the exam. That’s enough. “
Later, Chen Yu learned the truth from others. He learned that she had given up her qualification for the provincial mathematics competition, that she had waited for two hours outside the teacher’s office to get that set of study materials, and that she had only slept five hours a night for the month leading up to the exam — two hours to review her own lessons and three hours to prepare the materials for him.
By the time he learned all this, he had already received his acceptance letter from the top high school. He sat at his desk at home, looked at the letter for a long time, then buried his face in his arms and leaned on the table.
He didn’t cry, but his nose felt sore for a long, long time.
8. Elite Class
When the first year of high school started, the class assignment list was posted on the bulletin board on the first floor of the teaching building.
Lin Wanwan found her name on the list of Class 1 (the honors class), and then looked down and saw Chen Yu in the third to last position.
He was indeed the worst one — he squeezed into the honors class as the last-place student.
But this ” last place ” status was earned through his relentless efforts throughout his entire final year of junior high. He went from being at the bottom of his class to scoring over 70% of the students in the high school entrance exam. He was someone who once couldn’t even understand quadratic functions, yet he single-handedly dragged himself into the top class of a prestigious high school.
On the first day of school, Lin Wanwan walked into the classroom and found Chen Yu already sitting in the last row by the window — just like in junior high. When he saw her come in, he raised his hand as a greeting.
” Why are you sitting in the last row again? ” she asked as she walked over.
“ I’m used to it, ” he said, “ and the last row has a good view; I can see you. ”
Lin Wanwan glared at him, then turned to find her seat. After taking a couple of steps, she turned back and whispered, ” Wait for me after school, let’s walk together. “
Chen Yu’s lips curled up, but he didn’t answer; instead, his eyes lit up.
Life in the honors class wasn’t easy. Chen Yu was last in the class, a fact that dealt a significant blow to his newly built confidence. In the first monthly exam, he ranked forty-eighth out of fifty students.
He remained silent for a long time when he received his report card. Lin Wanwan sat next to him, unsure of what to say. She knew she couldn’t help him the way she had in middle school — the difficulty of high school courses was on a completely different level, and she herself was still adjusting; she had no energy left to tutor someone else.
But Chen Yu didn’t remain depressed for long. He took his report card to Lin Wanwan and said, ” Give me a reading list. I’ll study it myself. “
” What book list? “
” Reference books. List the ones you think are good and suitable for my level for me. “
Looking at his serious expression, Lin Wanwan suddenly realized that this person had really changed. In junior high school, Chen Yu was passively pushed along, but now, he was actively finding his own way.
She spent a weekend visiting two bookstores and browsing countless posts online to compile a detailed list of reference books for him, from basic to advanced, categorized by level and subject, and even marked the difficulty level of each book and the appropriate order for practicing questions.
When Chen Yu received the list, he glanced at its thickness — three pages of A4 paper.
“… Did you go through every reference book in China? “
” Almost. ” Lin Wanwan rubbed her eyes, which were sore from staring at the computer for so long. ” Take your time, no rush. “
Chen Yu put the list away and, seeing her rubbing her eyes, suddenly reached out and gently pressed her temple.
” What? ” Lin Wanwan was startled.
” Let me give you a massage, ” he said casually. ” You’ve been reading for too long. “
His fingers applied just the right amount of pressure, the pads of his fingers slightly rough — calluses from years of holding a pen. Lin Wanwan froze for a second, then slowly relaxed and closed her eyes.
The classroom was quiet, and the setting sun shone through the window, casting long, long shadows of the two people.
IX. Three years of high school
High school years can feel both fast and slow.
Chen Yu’s grades improved little by little, like a snail climbing a hill. By the end of his first year of high school, he had climbed from last place to tenth from the bottom. In the first semester of his second year, he was no longer in the bottom ten. In the second semester, he entered the top forty in his class for the first time.
Every step forward may seem insignificant, but when accumulated, they create a leap that cannot be ignored.
He no longer needed Lin Wanwan to tutor him — he had learned to study on his own. Every evening after self-study, he would stay in the classroom for an extra half hour to compile the questions he didn’t understand that day, and ask the teacher or Lin Wanwan the next day. His notebooks of wrong answers had accumulated into a thick stack, each one filled to the brim with writing, the red, blue, and black pens interspersed like abstract paintings.
Lin Wanwan’s grades remained consistently in the top ten of her grade. She chose science, and so did Chen Yu — not because he liked it, but because he ” didn’t want to be separated from her . ” He didn’t say it aloud, but they both knew the reason.
At the first parent-teacher conference after the subject selection in the second year of high school, Lin Wanwan’s mother ran into Chen Yu’s mother in the classroom. The two middle-aged women chatted briefly in the hallway. Chen Yu’s mother, a straightforward person, smiled and said, ” My son Xiaoyu said that he was able to get into the top class entirely thanks to your Wanwan. “
Lin Wanwan’s mother smiled politely, but after returning home, she sat on the sofa in silence for a long time. Finally, she said to Lin Wanwan, ” If that boy is truly good to you, Mom doesn’t object. But you must remember, your future is your own; don’t put all your heart and soul into someone else. “
Lin Wanwan nodded, feeling both warm and bittersweet inside.
Senior year of high school is the most difficult year.
Overwhelming test papers, endless exercises, less and less sleep, and ever-increasing pressure. Sometimes after evening self-study, Lin Wanwan would slump over her desk, unwilling to move. Chen Yu would come over, place a milk candy on her desk, and then sit quietly beside her, saying nothing, just keeping her company.
Once, Lin Wanwan had a breakdown after failing a mock exam and cried in an empty classroom. Chen Yu appeared out of nowhere, handed her a pack of tissues, then sat opposite her, crossed his arms on the desk, and quietly watched her cry.
After she finished crying, she blew her nose, her eyes still red, and looked at him: ” What are you doing here? “
“ I leave half an hour later every day, ” he said. “ You know that. ”
” You … you saw it all? “
” Um. “
Lin Wanwan felt extremely embarrassed and buried her head in her arms, refusing to lift it. After a while, she felt a hand gently placed on the top of her head, the warmth of the palm passing through her hair, comforting and reassuring.
” Lin Wanwan, ” Chen Yu’s voice was very low, as low as the chirping of insects in the dead of night, ” you’re already very capable. Even if you don’t do well on a test occasionally, you’re still Lin Wanwan. “
She looked up, her vision blurred by tears, and saw his face. In the dim light, his features were much more defined than in junior high, his jawline more pronounced, and his shoulders broader. But his eyes were still the same — dark, bright, and looking at her intently.
“ Don’t look at me like that, ” she said in a hoarse voice.
” Why? “
” Because … I’ll feel even more like crying. “
Chen Yu chuckled softly, withdrew his hand from her head, took a milk candy from his pocket, unwrapped it, and held it to her lips.
“ Eat candy, ” he said. “ It’s sweet, and if you eat it, you won’t want to cry. ”
She opened her mouth and bit into the candy, the sweetness of the milk slowly melting in her mouth. Whether it was the candy that really worked, or simply because he was the one who gave it to her, she truly stopped crying.
10. University
The college entrance examination is over, time to fill out college application forms.
Lin Wanwan’s score was high enough to get into a 985 university outside the province , but she ultimately chose a key university within the province. She didn’t explain the reason to anyone, but Chen Yu knew.
Chen Yu’s score was nearly 60 points lower than Lin Wanwan’s, but they were both in the same city — at an ordinary provincial university. The subway ride from Chen Yu’s school to Lin Wanwan’s university took one hour and twenty minutes, requiring two transfers.
On the day he received his acceptance letter, Chen Yu sent Lin Wanwan a message: ” Lin Wanwan, did you give up something again for me? “
He asked this question twice. The first time was after the high school entrance exam, and the second time is now.
Lin Wanwan replied: ” I haven’t given up anything. I love this city, I love this university, and this was my own choice. “
” You’re lying. “
” I don’t. “
” You do. Every time you lie, you say ‘ I didn’t , ‘ and you use a period instead of an exclamation mark when you type. “
Lin Wanwan stared at the screen, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. When did this person become so thoughtful?
She put down her phone, then picked it up again after a while, typed a long message, deleted it, retyped it, and finally sent only one sentence:
” Chen Yu, I have no regrets. You deserve it. “
Four years of university life is a different kind of rhythm.
Lin Wanwan continued to excel in university, ranking among the top three in her major, winning the national scholarship, participating in various competitions, and securing a place in the postgraduate program without taking the entrance exam. Inspired by her, Chen Yu also worked hard, ranking among the top students in his class and pursuing a double major.
They didn’t go to the same school, but every weekend, Chen Yu would take the subway for an hour and twenty minutes to see her. Sometimes he would take her out for a nice meal, sometimes he would accompany her to the library to study, and sometimes he would just sit on the lawn on campus and bask in the sun.
One particularly cold winter day, Chen Yu rushed over from school, carrying a thermal bag. When he opened it, he found it contained a bowl of white fungus and lotus seed soup that he had made himself — he said he had seen her post on social media saying she had a sore throat, so he learned how to make it.
Lin Wanwan took a sip. The sweetness was just right, the lotus seeds were stewed until soft and glutinous, and the gelatinous substance of the white fungus had been extracted.
” When did you learn to cook? ” she asked in surprise.
“ Last semester, ” he said, “ since I had nothing to do on weekends, I studied it a bit. ”
Later she learned that he had failed three times in his dorm’s small kitchen trying to make this soup, wasting two whole bags of white fungus. The first time it was too thin, the second time too thick, and the third time he forgot to add sugar. The fourth time he finally succeeded, and he put it in an insulated bag and took the subway for almost an hour and a half to deliver it to her.
When she drank it, the soup was no longer too hot, but her heart was burning.
University wasn’t without its ups and downs. In her sophomore year, Lin Wanwan’s roommate subtly asked her, ” Your boyfriend isn’t in the same school, don’t you feel … cheated? Look at so-and-so from the next class, he’s so obviously pursuing you, and he’s quite handsome too. “
Lin Wanwan was writing her lab report and didn’t even look up: ” Not a loss. “
” Haven’t you thought about changing to someone else? “
“ I haven’t thought about it. ” She paused, thought for a moment, and said very seriously, “ I’ve known him since I was thirteen. I know him very well. No matter how good others are, they’re not him. ”
Her roommate was stunned by her tone and never brought up the topic again.
Meanwhile, Chen Yu also received advice from others. His college roommate, after learning that his girlfriend was a top student from a prestigious 985 university, joked, ” Be careful, she’s so outstanding, what if someone else snatches her away? “
Chen Yu, who was organizing his notes, looked up upon hearing this, his expression indifferent: ” You can’t catch them. “
” How can you be so confident? “
“ Because she promised me. ” After saying this, he lowered his head and continued organizing his notes, as if it were a matter of course.
His roommate watched his retreating figure, shook his head, and thought to himself that this person was truly — too confident to be envied.
11. Proposal
After graduating with their master’s degrees, Lin Wanwan went to work at a research institute, while Chen Yu went to work at a technology company. The two worked in the same city, rented a small apartment, and began their daily lives of working nine to five.
Life was as uneventful as plain water, but Lin Wanwan felt it was just right. In the mornings, Chen Yu would wake up half an hour earlier than her, cook porridge, fry two eggs, and then call her to get up. If she got off work early in the evening, she would go to the market to buy groceries, cook two simple dishes, and wait for him to come home so they could eat together. After dinner, one would wash the dishes while the other mopped the floor, then they would snuggle on the sofa to watch a movie or read their own books, occasionally exchanging a glance; even in silence, it was very comfortable.
In their tenth year together, Chen Yu proposed.
It wasn’t a grand spectacle — no drones, no big screens, no onlookers kneeling in apprehension. It was just an ordinary weekend evening, the two of them eating hot pot at home. Halfway through the meal, Chen Yu suddenly put down his chopsticks, took a small dark blue box from his pocket, placed it on the table, and pushed it in front of Lin Wanwan.
“ Open it and take a look, ” he said, his tone as calm as if he were saying, “ The beef is very tender today . ”
Lin Wanwan put down her chopsticks and opened the box. Inside was a ring, a very simple design — a thin silver band with a tiny diamond set in it, sparkling softly under the light.
She looked at the ring and suddenly felt her eyes welling up with tears.
“ Lin Wanwan, ” Chen Yu’s voice came from the other end, still calm, but with a slight tremor at the end, “ From the first year of junior high to the second year of graduate school, eleven years. I owe you so much — time, energy, a better choice. But you’ve never complained. ”
He paused, then took a deep breath.
” I can’t go back to the final year of junior high and save you those nights you stayed up for me. I can’t go back to the final year of senior high and spare you those tears you shed worrying about me. All I can do is make sure you don’t have to sacrifice anything for me anymore. “
“ From now on, it’ll be my turn. I’ll get up early to cook porridge for you, leave a light on for you when you stay up late, pick you up when you work overtime, and quietly stay with you when you’re tired. Just like … what you used to do for me. ”
” Lin Wanwan, will you marry me? “
The hot pot broth was still bubbling away, steam rising and blurring their faces. Lin Wanwan’s tears finally fell, one by one, landing on the table.
She remembered the flag-raising ceremony when she was thirteen, and his lazy yawn. She remembered the milk candy he left on her desk that winter in her second year of junior high. She remembered the smell of laundry detergent on his school uniform jacket as they ran in the rain in her third year. She remembered the ice water he handed her under the old locust tree before the high school entrance exam. She remembered his fingers massaging her temples in the high school classroom. She remembered the white fungus and lotus seed soup he brought her after a one-and-a-half-hour subway ride during her university years.
I remembered something he once said— ” Every time you lie, you always say ‘ I didn’t . ‘ “
She lied to him many times. She lied that tutoring wasn’t tiring, that she hadn’t given up anything, and that everything was her own choice. But he saw through her lies every time, yet he never called her out on it. Instead, he silently showed her through his actions: I know, but I will try my best to be worthy of your efforts.
“ Okay, ” she said, her voice hoarse as if it had been sanded.
Chen Yu was taken aback: ” What? “
” I said yes. ” She wiped away her tears, smiled, and said, ” I’ll marry you. I do. “
Looking at her smiling face, Chen Yu’s eyes suddenly reddened. He had never cried in front of her before — not in junior high, not in high school, not in college, but now he finally couldn’t hold back anymore.
He stood up, walked around the hot pot table, went to her, bent down, and pulled her into his arms. It was a tight, forceful embrace, as if he wanted to melt all the debts, gratitude, and unspoken love of the past eleven years into that hug.
” Thank you, ” his voice muffled by her hair, nasal, ” thank you for not giving up on me. “
Lin Wanwan buried her face in the crook of his shoulder and smelled a familiar scent — it wasn’t laundry detergent anymore, but a faint woody fragrance. He was much more mature than when she was a teenager, but it still made her feel at ease.
“ I never gave up on you, ” she said. “ Never. ”
12. Wedding
The wedding took place the following spring.
It wasn’t a grand affair; we simply invited family members and closest friends from both sides to a small outdoor wedding in a garden.
Lin Wanwan wore a white wedding dress, not one of those with an exaggerated long train, but a simple A -line skirt, with a few hand-sewn daisies embroidered on the hem. Her hair was half-up and half-down, with a fresh baby’s breath tucked behind her ear.
Chen Yu wore a dark blue suit, his hair cut short, revealing his smooth forehead. He stood there, watching Lin Wanwan walk over from the other end of the flower path, sunlight filtering through the leaves and dappling her like scattered gold.
She walked up to him, and he reached out and took her hand. Her hand was warm, and her fingertips trembled slightly.
The emcee, their high school classmate, asked the classic question: ” Will you …?”
Before the emcee could finish speaking, Chen Yu said, ” I do. “
The audience laughed, and Lin Wanwan laughed too, but then she started crying.
Chen Yu’s hands trembled as they exchanged rings. He tried twice before he could slip the ring onto her ring finger, then lowered his head and kissed the back of her hand.
When it was Lin Wanwan’s turn to speak, she hadn’t prepared a speech. After taking the microphone, she paused for a moment and then said:
” Many people have asked me why it was him. My teachers asked me in junior high, my classmates asked me in high school, my roommates asked me in college, and my colleagues asked me after I started working. “
She turned to look at Chen Yu, who was quietly watching her with bright eyes.
” My answer has never changed — because he is Chen Yu. “
” He wasn’t the smartest, the most outstanding, or even the most romantic. But he was the most earnest person I’ve ever met. He earnestly studied math problems he couldn’t even understand, earnestly stayed quietly by my side during every moment I didn’t want to talk, and earnestly walked step by step to my side when everyone thought he wasn’t good enough for me. “
” In these eleven years, he has never let me down. “
She paused, her voice slightly choked.
” So it’s not that he’s good enough for me, it’s that we’re good enough for each other. “
Chen Yu stood opposite her, tears silently streaming down his face. He didn’t wipe them away, letting them flow freely, but a smile played on his lips, making him look like a seventeen-year-old boy.
Applause erupted from the audience, and some people were secretly wiping away tears.
After the wedding, they returned to their new home — the small rented apartment they hadn’t had time to move out of yet. On the table sat a bouquet of flowers with a handwritten card tucked inside. It was Chen Yu’s handwriting; each stroke was neat and precise, though not perfectly executed.
” Lin Wanwan, thank you for waiting for me since I was thirteen. From now on, it’s my turn to wait for you. Waiting for you to get off work, waiting for you to come home, waiting for us to grow old together. “
At the very bottom of the card, there is a small picture of a milk candy.
end
Many years later, they had their own house, children, and a busy middle-aged life. But every Saturday night, Chen Yu would still cook a pot of porridge — not for anyone in particular, just out of habit. He said that cooking porridge reminded him of the days when he took the subway to deliver soup during his university years; although it was hard work, his heart was full.
Lin Wanwan occasionally flips through old photos, looking at the boys and girls in the pictures wearing baggy school uniforms, and feels how fast time flies. But she’s not afraid of getting old, because the person beside her has been there from when she was thirteen until now.
One day, my daughter found their graduation photo and pointed to Chen Yu in it, saying, ” Mom, Dad was so handsome when he was young! “
Lin Wanwan glanced at Chen Yu, who was sitting on the sofa reading a newspaper — his hair was a little gray, and he had fine lines at the corners of his eyes, but the contours of his brow bone were still as handsome as they had been back then.
” Hmm, ” she said, ” He’s handsome, but his grades aren’t good. “
Chen Yu peeked out from behind the newspaper, looking innocent: ” Didn’t my grades improve later? “
” Who is that because of? “
“… Because of you. “
” Good to know. “
The daughter watched them bicker and secretly smiled.
That night, after her daughter fell asleep, Lin Wanwan leaned back on the sofa and scrolled through her phone. Suddenly, she came across a photo from a long time ago — it was of her after running in the rain during her third year of junior high school, her clothes soaked through and her bangs plastered to her forehead. She didn’t know who took the photo; it was probably a classmate who happened to be passing by.
She handed the photo to Chen Yu: ” Look how ugly I was back then. “
Chen Yu took the phone, glanced at it, then put it down and looked at her intently.
“ Not ugly, ” he said. “ Never ugly. ”
He paused for a moment, then added, ” Every time you say ‘ how ugly , ‘ what you really mean is ‘ how stupid you were back then . ‘ “
Lin Wanwan paused for a moment, then smiled.
” How do you know everything? “
“ Because I’ve been watching you for over a decade, ” he said, “ I remember every expression, every word, every punctuation mark. ”
Outside the window, the city lights twinkled, while inside, the light was a warm yellow. The television was playing something, the volume low, like white noise in the background. The two of them sat quietly on the sofa, shoulder to shoulder.
There’s no need to say anything, and no need to do anything.
This is the daily life they have earned through more than a decade of waiting and perseverance.
It’s ordinary, but precious enough.
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