In her second year of high school, Shen Tingxia secretly fell in love with someone.
He would often roll up his school uniform sleeves, revealing his pale skin dotted with faint freckles. During breaks, he would carry a bottle of Beibingyang soda and lean casually against the mulberry tree, laughing carelessly.
He shone so brightly, illuminating her entire youth like a beam of light.
She silently wished for him to achieve great things, and indeed, he lived up to her hopes—advancing from Class A to the elite class, transforming from an ordinary student to a star, and making a stunning debut in a film that skyrocketed him to fame.
The person she had secretly adored became someone beloved by everyone.
He kept moving forward, gradually drifting further away from her.
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At the age of twenty-four, Jiang Su experienced his first love—with a girl he adored deeply.
She was a guest artist for the film crew, his high school alumna, and the classmate who sat just across the hallway.
They shared many memories—like the mulberry tree on campus, the soda that was always sold out at the school store, and the school uniform sleeves with uneven stitching.
He had always thought it was all coincidence.
Until he accidentally stumbled upon a box of old sketch papers.
Every drawing was of the same person, rendered with such skill that no draft was needed. At first, he didn’t recognize who it was, but as he flipped to the end, a few movie tickets fell out—all featuring films he had starred in.
Every ticket was for Row 7, Seat 6—his seat number in school.
It turned out that the youthful days he had casually forgotten were signals of her unwavering affection.
And the narrow, convenient hallway in his memory was, to her, a bridge that allowed her to gaze at him from afar for so long.
(Credit : Dragonholic Translations)