因為天天看到他，替他開門，所以印象很深刻，覺得這個男孩很憂鬱，彷彿有著重重的心事。
The young man left a deep impression on Wen-wen as she opened the door for him everyday. He gave her a feeling that he was a melancholy guy with lots of worries on his mind.

今天是工廠的十週年慶，人人都高興的慶祝著，可是他還是晚上12點多才出現，讓文文覺得好奇。文文才開了門，看到他時順便遞上一塊蛋糕。「今天工廠十週年慶」文文說。「謝謝」志忠回答。「這陣子比較忙嗎？要不你怎麼多會那麼晚才回來？」文文問。「補習。」志忠回答。「去那補習阿？」文文覺得好久沒聽過補習了。「臺中。」志忠淡淡的回答。「別開玩笑了，從雲林騎車到臺中補習。」文文覺得很難相信。「真的。」志終回答。「你受到什麼刺激阿？」文文覺得事情有點有趣。「沒什麼，我有一個很好的情人。」志忠說他的故事，「不過當我當完兵的時候她告訴我她要離開我，因為她有一個更好的對象，是個碩士。」「然後？」文文問。「我們從五專就是情人，七年的感情我放不下，所以我一面努力的去忘記，也想表現我不是懦夫，所以我去準備考研究所。」志忠的語氣有點悲傷了。「那為何跑到那麼遠？」文文覺得不可思議。「只有這樣才能讓我覺得有點忘了她的存在。」志忠低下了頭，黯黯的說到，「可是卻使我更想念她。」「是啊，七年的感情，誰能說放下就放下？」文文心中也帶點感傷了。「沒試著去挽回嗎？」「有，不過她不接電話也不肯見我，」志忠帶點哭泣的感覺。「我記的她喜歡玫瑰，所以我每個星期都送一封信過去，順便加一朵玫瑰，希望有一天能再重圓。」「放開心一點，事情還有希望的。」文文努力的安慰志忠。「謝謝。」志忠又慢慢走入宿舍。「世上又多一個看不破的人。」文文自言自語。可是心中卻希望有個人能這樣對自己。
People were celebrating the 10^th anniversary of the factory today, yet he showed up late as usual after midnight, which made Wen Wen quite curious. Wen Wen opened the door and gave him a piece of cake. 「Today is the 10^th anniversary of the factory,」 Wen Wen said. 「Thanks,」 Zhi Zhong replied. 「Are you busy recently? Why did you often come back so late?」 Wen Wen asked. 「I』m going to cram school,」 Zhi Zhong answered. 「Where?」 Wen Wen had not heard about cram schools for a long time. 「Taichung,」 Zhi Zhong replied. 「You must be joking? You ride the bike all the way from Yunlin to Taichung just to go to cram school?」 Wen Wen found it incredible. 「It』s true,」 Zhi Zhong replied. 「What made you do that?」 Wen Wen was intrigued. 「Nothing. I once had a perfect lover. When I was serving in the army, she told me that she was leaving me because she had met a better person, and the guy has a Master』s degree,」 Zhi Zhong told his story. 「And then?」 Wen Wen asked. 「We had been together since our junior-college days and I just could not give up a seven-year relationship. In order to forget her and to show that I was not a coward, I had to prepare for the entrance exam for graduate school.」 Zhi Zhong sounded somewhat sorrowful. 「But why did you have to go so far?」 Wen Wen found the story incredible. 「Only by doing this would I feel that I was forgetting her,」 Zhi Zhong lowered his head and said gloomily, 「but that only made me miss her more.」 「Yeah! Who can leave a seven-year-long relationship just like that?」 Wen Wen also began to feel sorry for him. 「Didn』t you try to win her back?」 「I did, but she wouldn』t see me and wouldn』t take my calls,」 Zhi Zhong seemed to be sobbing. 「I remember she was fond of roses, so I sent a letter and a rose to her every week, hoping we could be a couple again some day.」 「Look on the bright side. There is still hope,」 Wen Wen tried hard to comfort Zhi Zhong. 「Thanks,」 Zhi Zhong walked into the dormitory slowly. 「There is one more person unable to see through it all,」 Wen Wen murmured. Secretly, she wished that someone would treat her the way Zhi Zhong treated his girlfriend.

一年多過了，志忠也上研究所了。他的舊情人，嘉文，剛收到第98封信。嘉文半年前就跟她的碩士分手了，因為雙方都覺得個性不合。不過嘉文高興的是，志忠的信從沒斷過。之前不太願意在見到志忠，因為對他有點內咎，他的信也看了前幾封就沒看了，怕新男友不高興。
One year passed, Zhi Zhong got into graduate school. His ex-girlfriend, Cha Wen, had just received her 98^th letter. Cha Wen broke up with her Master boyfriend six months ago because they didn』t get along. She was glad Zhi Zhong』s letters never stopped. She did not really want to see Zhi Zhong because she felt somewhat guilty toward him. She read only the first few letters for fear her new boyfriend would be displeased.

不過現在嘉文很感動有一個人對她如此，分手一年多了還沒放棄。嘉文決定當他寄到第100封的時候，回他的身邊。所以嘉文要等到那時候才看他的信。她一封信也沒拆，「等到第100封時我再拆來看，等我答應他重回身邊的時候，相信他會很高興的。」好不容易熬了幾個星期，接到第99封信。嘉文的心涼了半截，因為信的裡面附了一張喜帖，而不是一朵玫瑰。嘉文趕工打開信來看看，「嘉文：等你一年多了，我也考上研究所了，本來一直很難對妳忘情，但是有個女孩對我很好，她父母也對我很照顧，我不想辜負他們，所以決定跟她結婚，相信妳會找到一個更理想的對象，在此也祝福妳。志忠。」嘉文後悔為何當時放棄七年的感情，為何不再跟他連絡，而只是為了自己的面子。現在的她什都沒有了，唯一能做的只是祝福志忠跟文文，永浴愛河。希望每個人都能珍惜自己所擁有的情緣，不一定是愛情 .....記得我曾經看過一句話：「世界上有千萬種藥，就是沒有後悔的藥。」就像故事中的嘉文 ...... 真的，後悔也沒有用了.......
Now, Cha Wen was touched that someone would be so nice to her—not giving up on her even after they had broken up for a year. Cha Wen decided that when she received the 100^th letter, she would go back to Zhi Zhong. She also decided that she would leave the letters unopened. 「I will wait until the 100^th letter arrives to open all of them. I am sure he would be very happy that I am coming back to him.」 After a few torturing weeks, she received the 99^th letter. Cha Wen』s heart froze because there was a wedding invitation enclosed, not a rose. Cha Wen opened the letter immediately. 「Cha Wen: I had been waiting for you for a year and I had made it into graduate school successfully. I could not forget you at first, but there was a girl who treated me very well, and her parents were nice to me to. I don』t want to disappoint them, so I have decided to marry her. I believe you will find a more ideal person. Best wishes. Zhi Zhong.」 Cha Wen felt very sorry for giving up the seven-year-long relationship. Why did she refuse to see him just because of her pride? Now, she had nothing. The only thing she could do was wishing Zhi Zhong and Wen Wen happiness forever. Everyone should cherish his/her relationships, not just love. This reminded me of a sentence I once read, 「There are thousand of medicines in the world, but none for regret.」 Just like Cha Wen in the story, it is no use to feel regret.