When the narrator is young, he secretly loved someone. He tells us that he is now an editor at a magazine, and that after graduating from university, he became a doctor. The narrator tells us about the reunion that he has been invited to. He asks if he can meet up with Lin, who is taller than him. Lin tells him that they haven't seen each other for a long time, but he hopes they can meet again. Lin asks if there is anyone he would like to see, and the narrator tells him about his "beloved girl," who is two years younger than him and is the "man of the hour" for girls back then. Lin says that he doesn't know who that girl is, but that he's not sure if it's the same man who pursued her in high school, or if it was a different man who did it. Lin then asks if the girl's nickname is "anran," and Lin explains that it was because she was so interested in nothing but studying back then that she barely spoke to boys. Lin invites everyone to come with him to the reunion, and he asks Lin if she will join them, and Lin tells her that she has to go to work the next day. Lin is worried that the girl will be alone at night, so she takes her home in a cab.