How did the distance between them keep increasing? The ending shouldn't be like this. Unknown to them, their paths had diverged. If this divergence had to be traced back to a specific time, it would probably go many years back.
In fact, their relationship started changing quietly the day they failed to keep their promise to each other. However, she naively thought she was the only one who had changed, and Feng Yi was still the same teenager. Not until she realized she could not completely forget him and launched attack out of a desire to catch him, did she suddenly understand that it might already be too late for everything.
In order to keep Feng Yi away from the battlefield, she had tried every possible way to make him stay, from kissing him for the first time, making a pact, to even daring to take a transport shuttle to the Big Macs battlefield. As it turned out, it was just her wishful thinking.