Friendship between opposite sexes may be beautiful but also a little subtle. Imagine a pair of opposite sex friends who have been together for many years. She knows his favorite sneakers, so she secretly buys them for him as a surprise on his birthday. He also knows her preferences and her habit of ordering milk tea. When ordering takeout, he will choose ice-free and three-point sugar as muscle memory.

Friendships between opposite sexes seem to encounter such a turning point: one day, one party may suddenly realize that he/she is so good to me, what would it be like if we were in that kind of relationship? It seems that he/she will be very happy, right? But will he/she think so too? Thinking about it, my face gets hot. The next time we meet, the air is a little more ambiguous and awkward.

You don’t know what to do next, and you don’t know how to define the relationship between you. This subtlety turns into a somewhat embarrassing dilemma: you are unwilling to maintain the status quo, but you are afraid of losing each other.