Qin Shuang's hand tightened around the umbrella handle.
Through the sweeping rain, she saw Gu Nanzhong, whom she hadn't seen for some days.
He hadn't brought an umbrella and seemed to have been in the rain; he looked somewhat bedraggled, with red blood vessels scattered across the whites of his eyes, as if he hadn't rested for a long time.
He looked so different that Qin Shuang found it hard to associate him with the person she remembered.
In her memory, Gu Nanzhong was always clean-cut and bright, the enviable campus heartthrob.
Qin Shuang felt stifled in her heart; she truly didn't want Gu Nanzhong to get hurt because of her, but since that day, she couldn't even look after herself, so where would she find the extra energy to worry about Gu Nanzhong?
"Shuangshuang, happy birthday," Gu Nanzhong said as he looked at Qin Shuang, giving her a bright smile.
It was as if all the past gloom didn't exist, that they had never been apart, only having a brief spat before reuniting.