Summer Solstice of Eleven Years

“I like his name.

I like my life, destined for this moment.”

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A high school classmate got married, and that day we had a class reunion at a friend’s house.

Somehow, we ended up talking about the silly and romantic things we did during our school days that no one knew about.

When it was Xia Li’s turn, she said, “On his birthday, I used my position at the radio station to play his favorite songs all afternoon.”

Someone asked who “he” was, but Xia Li just smiled and wouldn’t say.

Halfway through, she went to the restroom and bumped into someone coming out of the adjacent room.

It was Yan Sishi.

Yan Sishi looked down at her, his gaze deep, “So it was you.”

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“From Chucheng to Nancheng, from Nancheng to Beicheng, from Beicheng to Los Angeles.

To be closer to you, I crossed three thousand days and nights, ten thousand kilometers.

But you don’t need to know, because I’m about to forget you.”

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“Even six years after graduation, I still dream of him. Back then, I hated geography the most, but I served as the geography class representative for two years. Because going to the liberal arts office meant passing by his classroom. Carrying a stack of books, my heart felt both heavy and light, like holding a huge secret. Later, while shuttling between the gray office buildings in the business park, I often thought of those times. I will never have such pure feelings again, in that year, at sixteen, in that summer when the boy arrived.”

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Reading Tips:

* Unrequited Love Comes True / Mutual First Love / Happy Ending

* Quiet / Slow Burn / Plain / First Half School Life, Second Half Urban Life

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