As the college entrance exams drew closer, the end of their three years of high school was just around the corner. Beyond the mounting academic pressure, a heavy reluctance to part weighed on the students' hearts.
They couldn't bear to leave the school they had attended for three years, their teachers, their classmates. They'd even grown attached to the very stools they'd sat on for three years, to say nothing of the people they saw day in and day out.
After finally breaking into the grade's top fifty on the last mock exam, Huang Feng and Qian Jia were having dinner when Huang Feng's eyes suddenly reddened. "I'm going to miss you guys so much," she said. "I used to look forward to graduating, to growing up. But now that it's almost here, I'm just realizing how reluctant I am to leave."
