The watch is small, exquisite, and very delicate.
It was a gift from Feng Jinglin on her 18th birthday.
The two have known each other since childhood. Feng Jinglin is the grandson of Feng Yuanfeng, the president of the most famous tertiary hospital in Linjiang City.
The Feng family is a family of doctors. Feng Jinglin's great-grandfather and Feng Yuanfeng's father graduated from Beijing Medical University, one of the earliest medical schools in China.
Feng Yuanfeng and his son Feng Shicai both followed in their family's footsteps and became doctors. Because he started from a higher point than others, and because he was also intelligent and hardworking, Feng Yuanfeng became the president of a top-tier hospital in the area when he was in his forties. After retiring, he was rehired.
Feng Shicai was not as capable as his father, but he became the head of a department at a very young age. However, the family heir, Feng Jinglin, had no interest in medicine at all.
Feng Jinglin once told Lin Xiao that he probably developed a strong aversion to white coats and medicine from a young age because he saw too many corpses preserved in formaldehyde at the workplaces of his grandfather and father, and was also frightened by medical skeletons at home.
When it came time to choose a major for the college entrance exam, he resolutely refused to study medicine, even at the risk of breaking with his grandfather and father.
The Feng family only had one grandson, so they couldn't dissuade him and let him study the major he liked.
Lin Xiao and Feng Jinglin knew each other since childhood because her father, Lin Haitao, was in the medical equipment business, which naturally involved dealing with hospitals and doctors.
The Feng family was a frequent guest of the Lin family, so the children naturally became acquainted with them.
Feng Jinglin and Lin Xiao were both excellent students. They were admitted to the city's key high school, the Affiliated High School of the Foreign Languages Institute, after taking the high school entrance exam. This made them even closer.
When young boys and girls first experience the stirrings of love, Feng Jinglin confesses his feelings to Lin Xiao.
Lin Xiao was only 16 years old that year, just starting her first year of high school. Feng Jinglin was two years older than her and was already a senior in high school.
Lin Xiao actually had feelings for Feng Jinglin, but she was gentle and obedient since childhood and believed that she should focus on her studies and not think about anything else, so she was startled by this sudden confession.
"Why are you bringing this up now, Jinglin? Aren't you preparing for the college entrance exam?" She panicked immediately.
Seeing her panicked state, Feng Jinglin became even more tempted.
He told Lin Xiao that he was about to take the college entrance examination, his goal was to get into a university in Beijing, and he was confident that his grades would be good.
But he was afraid that Lin Xiao would slowly forget him after he left, so he hoped that she would agree to his request first.
Finally, Lin Xiao promised him that she would talk about it again when she turned 18, if she still wanted to confess by then.
Feng Jinglin indeed waited until she turned 18, and on her birthday, he presented her with a carefully prepared gift—this custom-made Swiss watch.
Because Lin Xiao likes green, Feng Jinglin chose green as the overall tone for the watch he customized for her.
The golden star and sparkling diamonds shone brightly against the dark green dial, which deeply moved Lin Xiao at the time.
Despite the abundance of beautiful women at the universities in Beijing, Feng Jinglin remained faithful and waited patiently until she turned 18.
But no one expected that he would get engaged to her sister the year after Lin Xiao graduated from university.
Lin Xiao still doesn't fully understand what happened during that time.
All she knew was that the new younger sister who appeared after her family's restructuring showed obvious affection for Feng Jinglin the first time they met.
But Lin Xiao was young at the time and was naive about many things, so he didn't take it to heart.
She already knew at school that a smart and handsome boy like Feng Jinglin was popular wherever he went.
But what she didn't expect was how much effort her younger sister had put in to get close to Feng Jinglin.
My younger sister, Lin Xue, has average grades, which are not good enough for her to get into a top-tier university in Beijing.
The stepmother once wanted to send her daughter to study abroad, saying that no matter how much it cost, she would let her go to a school she liked.
Lin Xue refused outright and ultimately chose to attend a very ordinary school in Beijing, just so she could be closer to Feng Jinglin.
Lin Xiao sometimes wondered if his younger sister loved Feng Jinglin more than he did, which was why he felt that intense love and fell in love with someone else.
Why could his sister travel thousands of miles to be close to him, while he chose a university in Shanghai, which was closer to home?
If I had followed in his footsteps to Beijing without hesitation back then, would things have turned out differently?
When and under what circumstances did those two people, who should have been her closest, get together?
When you got together, did you feel guilty towards her?
Lin Xiao had a hundred or a thousand questions in his mind, and ten thousand reasons to be unwilling, but he knew that things had come to this point and there was no other way but to accept it.
"Il ya quelqu'un?" (Is anyone there?)
The sudden knocking and questions interrupted her reminiscences.
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