Chapter 1: School Love Letter Incident Lost and Found
The spring breeze sings praises to me
fuiwen
2025.08.20
one,
When Yu Han first heard about Lan Zhong's "love letter", she had already left China for Singapore a month ago. It was the third quarter of 2015, the beginning of the school year in China.
Busy with the new semester, her classmates in China didn't have much time to repeat all the gossips to her one by one, so she only knew the beginning but not the end.
It was not until the arrival of 2016 that she and her former classmates from China made an appointment to go to Kuala Lumpur for New Year's Eve. After meeting, her classmates brought up the "love letter" incident that was still widely circulated on the Lanzhong campus half a year later.
It was a letter written from a female perspective. Someone took a photo of the four-page content and posted it on the Lanzhong Forum, where it became the most popular post on the forum that day.
It is said that the letter was lost by its owner before. As early as a month ago, the owner posted on the forum asking if anyone had picked it up, but there was no response.
Who would have known that a month later, on September 1st, the first day of school in China, someone posted a photo of the entire content of the letter, asking if this was the love letter that someone had found before.
The whole school was in an uproar.
"The love letter was written by a girl. The recipient is still unknown. We only know that he is a male and a student at Lanzhong."
Classmates Bao Tong and Yu Han were walking down the street in Kuala Lumpur when they began to tell her about the incident: "The girl is no longer in our school. She went abroad the day she submitted the love letter."
"oh…"
"You know what, Hanhan? They don't know each other in real life. Does this count as an online relationship?"
"..." Well, they knew each other, of course. And it wasn't really a relationship, they weren't together yet. I didn't know who said it was a love letter, but to her, it was a serious farewell letter.
Bao Tong didn't know what she was thinking, but he told her the story with great enthusiasm: "They met in Italy, and then they seemed to get in touch online because of something.
The girl said that when they first met, he was wearing a hat. She had an injury and her eyes were bloodshot, so she looked at him but couldn't see clearly and couldn't remember him. Many people around her had seen him, but she had never met him properly. She only remembered that he was very handsome...
Others had told her about his appearance, saying he was very, very handsome, but she only remembered that he was very tall. She was scared when he held her, but she felt very, very safe when he held her.
“…” Yu Han blushed slightly on the streets of Kuala Lumpur during the New Year.
"Of course, this is not the main content of the letter."
Bao Tong smiled and eagerly repeated the story to her, "It was actually a farewell letter. In it, the girl said her plans had changed and she was going abroad to study, so she couldn't go to the school with the boy. They had originally agreed to meet somewhere else that day if they were not in the same class, and they had even set the meeting place and time at the school!
So after the change of plans, she thought about it for several days, not knowing how to tell him in person, and finally left him a letter.
"Um."
"It's such a pity. It seems that the two of them met because of an accident abroad, and the reason they were able to contact each other was that the girl posted a missing person notice on the Internet and successfully contacted the boy.
Later, the matter was resolved, and they reportedly deleted the WeChat account. However, they continued to contact each other through the internet, often chatting and saying good morning and good night to each other. It was so sweet.
Yu Han said nothing, just laughed dryly.
Bao Tong sighed again after hearing this: "But, there was no further story after that. The girl went abroad. It's really sad to have such an abrupt end to a story."
Yu Han smiled bitterly.
Bao Tong: "I wonder if the boy saw the letter after so much time. I wonder if he didn't continue studying at Lanzhong? If not, I'd be depressed."
He was there, but Yu Han didn't know whether he had seen the letter or not because they had lost contact.
Originally, if Yu Han had not gone abroad, she would have gone to this school for high school, but she left at the last minute and went to Singapore.
Before leaving, she really didn't know how to tell him about this. She couldn't put it into words. She thought about it for several days, and finally wrote a letter and called him to make an appointment to meet him, wanting to give him the letter.
He originally thought that this was their first and last formal meeting, but it turned out that the person who answered the phone that day was not him.
The other party was also a boy, and he said, "Oh, Qin Yi, yes, it's his number.
I am his classmate and he lent me his cell phone.
We're going to play basketball soon but I don't know where he is right now.
"Letter? How about I get it for him?"
So, in the end, she met his classmates, not him in person.
He didn't see the letter that day.
The next day when she went online, she found that he had left her a message on Instagram, where they often chatted. He said that he had called her all night but couldn't get through, so he left a message asking what was in the letter. His phone and the letter were lost by his classmates. The phone was later found, but the letter was not.
So he was very anxious and looked for her all night.
Yu Han could only tell him in person that she was no longer studying in Lanzhong...but she would return to see him during the holidays, and they could still meet.
The message showed "read" for a long time, but the other party was silent.
Finally, a new message came in. He told her that after he lost his phone, a classmate posted his phone number and other accounts on the forum, resulting in a lot of messy messages, and he needed to change them all.
She asked him what the new number and account number were, but the message had remained unread for several months.
He couldn't add me on WeChat anymore, couldn't get through on the phone, his Instagram posts were unread, and his Facebook posts were silent. They were completely disconnected.
As for the missing "love letter", it was exposed and made public on the first day of school in China, a month after they had lost contact. It became a topic of conversation among the middle school students for a long time.
Yu Han looked down at the road, thought for a moment, and asked the person next to her, "You said you didn't know whether that boy had read the letter. So, that boy... no one knows who he is?"
Bao Tong shook his head helplessly: "I don't know, but everyone has suspected someone."
"..." Yu Han was frightened, "Who is it?"
"My name is Qin Yi."
"..." She held her breath. "Why? Who is he?"
"A student in the first year of high school. He had lost his phone on the school basketball court, and someone found it and posted it on a forum. Then, on the same day, someone else posted a question asking if anyone had found a letter on the basketball court." Bao Tong spread his hands. "Do you understand? His phone and the letter were lost on the same day, and both were on the basketball court. So when the love letter was exposed, everyone suspected it was his."
"Just, doubt?" she asked cautiously.
"Well, he didn't admit it. Even if it was really him, he wouldn't have admitted it. Otherwise, the whole school would have been informed on the first day of school. Lanzhong is a key high school."
Yu Han breathed a sigh of relief.
"But I really suspect it's his, maybe 90 percent." Bao Tong suddenly added another shocking statement.
"..." Yu Han glanced at her, "Why?"
"Because didn't the letter say that boy was very handsome? He's universally recognized as handsome. And you don't know Qin Yi, but he's truly extremely handsome. He fits the description in the girl's letter perfectly, and he's tall too. Let me put it this way..." She curved her eyes gleefully and gave her an analogy, "Every time we pass by their class, the girls can't help but glance in."
"..." Yu Han couldn't accept that she couldn't remember what he looked like...
She coughed lightly and said hesitantly, "It could be a coincidence. There can't be only one handsome guy in your school. As for the letter, there were so many people at the basketball court. Maybe it was lost by someone else."
"Yes, so I can't be 100% sure. We don't really understand him, right? Hahaha."
Yu Han didn't know much about him. Apart from his name, age, and where he was from, she knew nothing else.
Before, I always had the mentality that school would start soon, and I could meet and get to know each other in person, and then I would know everything.
So, she just asked his name.
His surname is Qin, which means Qin Yi.
Bao Tong changed the topic and said, "Actually, let alone the male lead, the first thing I thought of was you, Hanhan, the female lead."
“…” Yu Han almost choked.
Bao Tong glanced at her and said, "Do you think this girl looks like you? You were supposed to study at Lanzhong, but you left. If I hadn't heard you talk about your trip to Italy, I would have been sure it was you."
Yu Han laughed dryly: "No, it's not me."
Bao Tong nodded. "I know it wasn't you. I'd definitely know if you were there. And the girl in the letter said she would return home and would definitely look for him when she did, but you didn't even go back for New Year's Day."
She smiled and nodded.
Bao Tong sighed, "I really want to know if those two saw it."
Yu Han: "It's highly likely that we won't meet again."
"Ah, why?" She looked surprised and sad.
Yu Han thought: Because the two of them have lost contact.
But she couldn't tell the real reason, and could only vaguely say: "We are so far apart, it's very troublesome to meet each other, and I will forget it soon."
Bao Tong was about to cry, but staring at her calm face, he had no strength to refute.
After a pause, she withdrew her gaze and sighed deeply, "Maybe. The letter has since disappeared, and the forum post was blocked because of its impact. Someone saved a photo of the love letter, but after it was circulated throughout the school, the pixels have been compressed and blurred. Otherwise, I would definitely show it to you."
She regretted, "The love letter was exposed in the autumn, but the relationship between them probably died that summer."
Yu Han was stunned for a few seconds, and then accepted this statement calmly.
After strolling around the streets of Kuala Lumpur, the two returned to the hotel and planned to watch the New Year's Eve fireworks at the Petronas Twin Towers in their room.
While waiting for the countdown at 11:55, Bao Tong held Yu Han's camera on the balcony and recorded the light show of the Twin Towers.
"Will there be fireworks in Lan City for New Year's Eve?" Yu Han asked suddenly as she leaned on the fence to watch the night view. "I don't think I've seen any."
Bao Tong, snapping away with his camera, took a moment to reply, "No, it seems like fireworks are allowed in certain locations along the outer ring road, but in most other urban areas, including the city, fireworks are prohibited year-round."
"That's such a pity." Someone will not be able to see the New Year's fireworks.
The countdown ended and the whole world turned into color.
Yu Han took the camera and took two pictures before stopping. After watching the ten-minute show, she returned to the living room, opened her tablet to take pictures, transferred them to her phone, and finally posted them on Instagram.
Caption: "Happy New Year~"
"So fast." Bao Tong glanced at her phone, then immediately shifted his gaze back to his own phone, "Aren't you going to post your own? I haven't finished editing it yet."
"No photos, just fireworks." She refreshed the page to see if there were any unexpected likes.
Unfortunately, it has been a long time since he last saw it, and he opened a new account.
Although the original account is still following her today.
But... why didn't you tell her the new contact information? Later, after reading the letter, you didn't contact her.
She said a lot, much more than the few simple words she exchanged with him on Instagram.
Four pages...
"Tell me, does everyone in your school know about that love letter?" Yu Han couldn't help but ask the girl next to her, "Has everyone seen the contents?"
Bao Tong said without looking up, "It's necessary. The post was not closed until a week later. I've read everything I should have read."
“Why was it closed a week later?”
"At first, the school didn't take it seriously and ignored the student forum. But then some people started speculating that the love letters were from Qin Yi, and some even named him. It caused a huge uproar, so all the related posts were blocked. The school forbids such things. Our homeroom teacher even emphasized in a class meeting that you should study hard and not follow others in online romances. We'll report anyone caught doing this."
"..." Yu Han asked awkwardly, "So he... the person you mentioned, he should have seen it too."
"He must have read it," Bao Tong laughed. "If he hadn't read it, how would he know it wasn't written to him? How could he deny it? It would be even worse to be blamed for nothing."
“…”
So, this bad guy deliberately didn't contact her, huh.
Just when I was feeling sad, the doorbell rang.
"Oh, I ordered a midnight snack. Hanhan, go open the door. I was editing a picture and I almost forgot where I was editing." Bao Tong sat in front of the phone without raising his head.
Yu Han went to open the door.
The waiter pushed a food cart with a wide variety of cakes and fruits on it, and the words "Happy New Year" were delicately hung on it.
Yu Han wanted to take the waiter's food cart and push it into the house herself, but at that moment, she heard several male voices coming from the corridor outside the door.
It was nothing at first, but then a figure wearing a hat flashed by in the corner of my eye.
She tilted her head and glanced at it: That hat... a white peaked cap...
Memories of a quick and blurry glance at Florence, Italy, at the beginning of the year came flooding back. She immediately withdrew her hand from helping the waiter push the cart and instead leaned out the door to take a look.
There are not many rooms on this floor, and there are several club suites. There are only two rooms in this corridor, and the doors are diagonally opposite each other about eight meters away.
Three young boys came out of the room, talking and laughing, and walked towards the elevator.
As if he noticed the movement here, the boy walking at the end wearing a white baseball cap and a black suit turned around.
The hotel corridor, lit by orange-pink wall lamps, was exceptionally quiet. The thick carpet seemed to swallow up even the impact of people walking. It was silent, and only one's own breathing and heartbeat could be heard.
Eyes met - strange face, familiar feeling, similar height, physique, and temperament.
They look alike from head to toe.
Yu Han frowned, her heart pounding.
But she couldn't remember his face. Her mind was dizzy after the injury. She only glanced at him vaguely with her bloodshot eyes before she passed out. Her vision was blurry and her memory was also blurry.
So at this moment she couldn't confirm that it was him based solely on "temperament", which had too vague a definition.
And what a coincidence, the two met again abroad.
Only after the other person withdrew his gaze and entered the elevator did she come back to her senses when she heard the waiter's call.
The waiter who had delivered the meal was about to leave when she blocked his way, so he called out to her gently.
Yu Han came back to her senses, smiled apologetically, made way, went into the house and closed the door.
"Where have you been, Hanhan?" Bao Tong, who was sitting cross-legged on the living room carpet eating a midnight snack, asked curiously, "You went out?"
"Oh, no, I just saw another customer outside and thought he looked familiar, so I took a peek."
"Really? Know him?"
"I don't know him. It's not that coincidental."
"Then let's eat. Take a look at the pictures I edited and see if they look good."
Yu Han knelt down in front of the coffee table, eating cake with a fork while picking up her phone to refresh the Instagram homepage to see Bao Tong's updates.
"Beautiful, Princess~"
"Oh." Bao Tong turned around and hugged her face and kissed her.
Yu Han smiled and dodged, wiping the cream off her face with a tissue.
Her hands were in a mess and she didn't know what she clicked on Instagram. When she put down the tissue and picked up her phone again, she saw a row of recommended accounts on the homepage.
The name of one of the accounts is Qiny.
Her heart skipped a beat, and she clicked on it. The other person's homepage was empty, with no updated content, but the profile picture was a golden cloud...
The familiarity of this avatar made her heart beat even more passionately than the person she had just seen.
She took a screenshot and wrote down the account name, then logged out and found the account she had just viewed.
The account is named Qin, and its avatar is also a golden cloud.
Is that his new account?
Yu Han couldn't believe it.
With trembling hands, I searched again for the account Qiny that I had just discovered. After finding it, I clicked on it. Finally, I took a few deep breaths, endured the pounding heart, and clicked into the chat box.
Yuerhan: “Qin Yi?”
One second, two seconds, the quiet chat box suddenly showed two words - read.
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