Tu Hengsha didn't know when she had fallen asleep, she only felt the deafening sound of the torrential rain gradually fading away.
She had a dream, a dream where she returned to the school many years ago. She was in the first grade, carrying a small backpack, and saw him in the same school uniform for the first time. Excitedly, she ran up to greet him, but a car pulled up at the school gate. A carefully dressed woman emerged from the car and took his hand, leading him into the car. From start to finish, he never looked back, nor did he hear her calling him.
Behind the car window, his round, serious face appeared. She chased and called out to him, but that face finally gradually disappeared, never to be seen again...
Then the dream plunged into chaos, all about her chasing his silhouette—on the sports field, the teaching buildings, even the men's bathroom...
Her voice echoed in the air above the schoolyard: "Brother Xu! Brother Xu! Brother Xu..."
But he never looked back...
