Ning Sui has a secret.
In her second year of high school, worn thin by frustration and tears, when the math problems never seemed solvable, no matter how hard she tried, she met a pen pal.
He told her, “Where you’re going, and who you’ll become, is a very long question. You don’t need to rush to answer it. Even if the answer keeps changing, that’s okay. Until then, you can always just be yourself.”
Later, as fireworks bloomed over New Year’s Eve, he kissed her and said it again.
Ning Sui keeps a meticulous ‘going-crazy list’—things she’s wanted to do for 18 years but was never allowed to by her mother.
“Dye my hair. Perm it.”
“Travel alone.”
“Drink alcohol.”
“Go to a music festival.”
Ever since she met Xie Yichen, the list has spiraled into something wilder and more reckless with every new line.
She never imagined that one night, after the city lights dimmed to nothing, he would set her on the back of his motorcycle and ride the coastal highway with her, the wind rushing around them.
That boy—with a wildness that had grown unchecked, impossible to tame—became, on that extraordinary summer night, the sun forever suspended in her memory.
“Before the summer night swelled with crowds, we secretly fell in love on one of the world’s passing trains.
(Credit : Dragonholic Translations)