On her sixteenth birthday, Gu Shi gathered up the courage to "write" that love letter.
But she didn't receive a response from Gu Shi. When she called Chu Le to inquire, he just laughed and teased, "Isn't Qian Yu on a date with you? Hasn't he arrived yet?"
That single sentence shattered Gu Shi, who had dressed up carefully, declined the birthday banquet her parents had meticulously prepared for her, and traveled from Hong Kong to Beijing, into pieces.
She didn't have the courage to question Chu Le further, so she just quietly hung up the phone, then sat at the table, watching the candles on the birthday cake burn out one by one.
"So..." Leng Qianyu turned his head to the side, "That night, you were in Beijing."
"Yeah!" Gu Shi snapped out of her recollection, "Since then... I knew you didn't like me, so..."
So she never dared to bring it up again. Every time others teased them, she would act as if nothing was amiss, just to avoid embarrassing him.
