The Tenth Year of Not Seeing You

Cold and stubborn scholarship student × blind golden boy

In the tenth year of not being able to see you, I finally had you.

The first time Lin Xun confessed to Shen Yu, he turned her down.

“Do you know what it feels like to live without light? Life is a bottomless pit. I don’t want you falling into it too.”

Later, this man who couldn’t see the light pulled her out of a different kind of abyss anyway, without hesitation. Kept her warm with whatever he had left.

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After they got together, Lin Xun discovered that Shen Yu had kept a copy of her university class graduation photo for years, pressed to the bottom of a box. He’d believed it was the only picture of her he had.

He couldn’t see it, so he didn’t know: she’d been working a part-time shift that day and hadn’t made it to the photo.

She wasn’t in it.

She told him:

“Shen Yu, let’s take a photo that belongs to just the two of us. One with you and one with me.”

“What kind of photo?”

“An ID photo. Let’s get married.”