Summer Solstice of Eleven Years

“I like his name. I like my life, destined for this moment.” · 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.” · “From Chucheng to Nanchen...