The narrator tells us that the first time he met Zhezhuan was when he was a freshman in college. He was tall, thin, and slightly tan, and had a "look of extreme determination" . After that, he began to watch him. The narrator says that he fell in love with him. He asks the narrator to help him with a question, and the two of them spend the next eight years together. When the narrator is finished with his art studies, he tells the narrator that he will go to sleep. When he took his art exams in Wuhan, he stayed with him during the winter holidays, and he waited at the entrance of the exam halls for her to come out to take her exam. When she was admitted to the university, she stayed in Hangzhou, and when she was in Shanghai, he would stay with her during his vacations. He would spend his vacation working as an unpaid intern, and she would come to him to accompany him on his vacation. After four years, they would be married, and they would live in a small apartment together. The company that hired the narrator says they will hire him after he graduates, and that he is the "biggest part of my youth" , so he does not want to lose her.