This is a story regarding youth and rebirth. Merely that.
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Reborn in the year 2003, Xu Tingsheng is 19, Xiang Ning 14...
Here exists silent guarding, and waiting/
Dearest one, I will prepare everything, and, await your growth.
Here exist unforgettable memories/
You are my old times, like a wall I as a child could never flip over.
Here exist lofty ambitions that soar to the heavens.
If one day, I preside over the heavens like gazing down over the world from Mount Tai, may it be that you will be at my side.
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Loved ones still alive, best friends still in the prime of their youth...
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Meh's synopsis:
Inexplicably reborn in the year 2003, having failed terribly in his previous life, the prevailing concern with Xu Tingsheng, that stands above all else, is none other than her. But alas, he is just months away from entering university, while she is but in her first year of junior high... Regarding this, all he can do is wait silently...for now.
In the meantime, other matters remain. There were quite a few things that went...rather badly, back then. Given the chance to change things, how would it not be the best decision to give that roulette wheel another spin with the odds stacked a better way, to attempt to change those dismal fates? And in some matters, does the alternative even truly exist? Hence flaps the butterfly's wings...
In Xu Tingsheng's new 'second chance' life, the power of foreknowledge coupled with intelligence pre-empts excellence, and that, coupled with personal charisma and character, begets women. Here he strives for success, while always keeping foremost in his mind that for which he exists, that which his achievements are ultimately meant to protect and cherish. And amidst all this, the season of youth does bloom for the young, deep, complicated romance and spontaneous, hot-blooded fighting never failing to inspire.
In this world, 'unconfessed love' are more than the 'unrequited love' or 'the breakups'.
In a bond between two people, each assume, what and how the other person stands in their life. But 'what am I in your life?" is the question that always be in their mind. 'Am I in your dreams, Am I in your thoughts, Am I being missed?', those questions to which we wanted to hear the (desired) answers but are scared of asking. Most importantly, we wish to know, 'Do those questions pop in your head TOO?' Because more than, 'I miss you', we always wonder about, 'Do you miss me like I do?'
If those questions are in your head, then you're in a 'some relationship'. The relationship where you will find yourself hoping that it will get somewhere, and you'll end up in always hoping rather than realizing your destination.
To fall in love with a person, age didn't set any restriction. To understand what love is, age and level of understanding played as barricades. Those barricades streamlined the traffic of emotions into nervousness, shyness and palpitations. It told her to run whenever he enters into her peripheral vision. 'Looking, yet not looking', became her way of high school life.
Avoid him.
Don't let him see you.
Don't show him your emotions.
Don't let him know anything about you!
She lived abiding those warning signs.
She met him again after many years and realized, those signs, had turned into her regrets. Is it any way possible that he can share her regrets? Will the beautiful memories become bitter? Won't their distance ever vanish? Will the yearnings of the heart, tear them apart? Won't the past ever return? Will their heart forever live like that?
P.S: This story is inspired by movies that made me cry. So the credit goes to those movies!