At that time, they had just entered the university. He is a child from a remote rural area, and so is she. They always comfort each other when they are laughed at as country people. After a long time, their hearts are near. Like all young couples, have lunch together and go to the park together. They don't have much money Most of the time, she and he would soak in the library and write small notes. Although people are poor, the light in the love world is the same. He and she, in this way, naturally fell in love.

Because they are all poor, compared with other couples, cinemas have fewer intimate hugs and fewer mysterious gifts for Valentine's Day. He seldom buys her anything. Once she took a fancy to a pair of red gloves and spent 10 yuan. He felt in his pocket, and there were only seven, so he had to smile awkwardly. Later, she bought wool and knitted two pairs of red gloves, one for each person. She said, it only cost five yuan. Is it worth it? He held her in his arms and vowed to treat her well for life.

In their junior year, they went out to work and the situation was better. As a tutor, he has some money. This time he bought her a necklace with his two-month salary, because she stared at the necklace for a long time when she was shopping, and he said at that time, I will buy it for you when I have money. It's a silver chain, very exquisite in workmanship, shining around her neck. She is not a particularly good-looking girl, but she looks beautiful after wearing this necklace. It happened that her birthday was coming, and he gave it to her as a birthday present. She said, I have a present for you, too.

What she gave him was her virginity. That day, in a humble small hotel, she and he were so emotional. He said, I will be good to you all my life. Let's love each other for life, no matter when, no matter where, no matter who has the ability in the future, ok? For life, we will not be apart. She curled up in his arms and burst into tears. She believes that this man will be kind to him.

Two months later, she was sick and vomited, and her body reacted strongly. She is pregnant. This is a terrible thing. What should she do if she talks to him? Let's begin, he said. We are still students. The school will expel us when it knows that we will graduate next year. Don't take the risk. No, she stubbornly said, I want this child, because it is mine and yours, because I love him and I must have him.

A month later, she went through the formalities of dropping out of school due to illness, and then went back to her hometown with a belly. He writes to inquire about her almost every day. By the time he graduated from college, the child was born, a boy.

She didn't go back to school, but he stayed in the big city of Shanghai. He could have gone back to the mountain area because she was waiting for her there. She is afraid to tell her family that a person with children works in a small company and can only use the money he earns. She is waiting for him to graduate and then live together. But he did not come back. He said that there are many opportunities in Shanghai. When I have money, I will take you and the children out.

This promise, he did not realize.

In fact, he only went home to see her once and found that she had become unsightly, with messy hair, gum in her eyes, extremely untidy clothes and milk stains on them. The child is crying wildly. Compared with him who is well-dressed and personable, she is a woman who has not walked out of the mountains. He waves: Do you really want her? Do you really want to take her away?

She was still so dependent on him that she asked him how he was doing in Shanghai. He said, this is not good, you wait. He lied. At that time, he was already the department head of the company, and he could get seven or eight thousand a month. She only had a few hundred dollars. Before she left, she put a thousand dollars in his hand, saying that you spent a lot of money in Shanghai. Take it. Tears welled up in his eyes. Knowing that he had failed this woman, he got on the train. He opened the paper bag, which contained a scattered thousand dollars, probably because she had collected a lot of change to make up enough.

But he lied to her, and he decided to pay with money.

Soon, he sent her 20 thousand yuan and wrote a letter. He just said that I was too busy to get married first. At that time, he was embarrassed to say goodbye directly. And she quickly sent back 20 thousand yuan. She said, I'm really sorry I didn't wait for you. I got married and promised to love each other for life, but I got married.

He cried. What a wise woman she is! She just got married for him! She gave him back her freedom and love, but he didn't have the courage to go home to see her. He thought, from now on, go their separate ways, maybe her current husband will be more suitable for her than himself.

At that time, he was surrounded by beautiful and fashionable women pursuing him. Because of her departure, he decided to start dating again. Besides, the girl's family is in Shanghai, and she is influential and helpful to him.

Soon, he and the girl traveled overseas to study abroad and started their own company in the United States. He has too much money, a villa and a private car, which he and she dreamed of in those years. He knew that he was a bad guy, so he chose to return to China five years later and invested in a company in her hometown. He intends to help her.

She was a teacher in a middle school in her hometown at that time. She is almost 40 years old. Her hair is half white and a little fat. Due to overwork, her swollen eyes became very dim. At the moment they met, they froze for a long time. It is time. More than ten years have passed, and time has increased her vicissitudes, but it has increased his mature charm.

He met their son, a boy of 17 years old. Like his copy, he studied very well and has been sent to Beijing for university. He wants to say thank you to her, but he thinks the language is too thin. He wanted to say he was sorry, but he felt that he didn't even have the qualification.

After staying in her humble office for a long time, he dared to ask, what does your lover do?

She smiled, and the wrinkles around her mouth moved. She said quietly, I have never been married.

In a flash, he stood up from his chair, tears fell off his guard, and the flood burst its banks in his heart: she had been waiting for him, waiting all the time.

You are stupid. He scolded, you are so stupid.

Her eyes were full of tears, and her body trembled a little: You said you would love each other for life, and I think it's true, what you said. He covered his face and knelt down slowly. In love, he is inferior to this woman. He doesn't know what a promise is.

At this time, he can't divorce, his wife and daughter, his career and family, everything he has, can't hold this woman anymore. But he knows that she is a pearl in his heart and has great value.

He asked her what she wanted. Because money can't make up for everything, and it must not be the money she values, because she paid him back 20 thousand yuan that year. She smiled. If you want to help me, donate a Hope Middle School. Look how backward our environment is.

That's the only thing he can do, it has nothing to do with her. In her eyes, the tranquility of Qianshan has passed and everything has settled. She said, that is my love and loyalty, and it has nothing to do with you.

On the plane back to America, he opened a bag and she gave it to him.

Inside are two pairs of red gloves, which are old, faded and the cotton thread has fallen off. He tried to put it on, but the thread broke as soon as he pulled it. Really old. It has been too many years. What can be forgotten forever? Only she, her pure eyes, as in those days, said that love for a lifetime is still moving.

It turns out that loving for a lifetime is not a simple sentence, but an oath to complete with a lifetime and love with your own heart. Unfortunately, he didn't do it. He knows that in this life, he is not only sorry for her, he is sorry for love.