Silver Light in the Cracks of Bricks

Name: Silver Light in the Cracks of Bricks
Author: Teruyuki Matsuma 1

by Teruyuki Matsuma 1

ongoing Realistic Fiction Youth Stories Male Lead

Length:

30Kwords20chapters

Latest:

Ch. 20 — 岁月酿的深情（2023秋·十八楼顶）

Activity:

Updated 1mo agoScraped 5d ago

2Favorites

0QD Score

About This Novel

Light in brick cracks In 1998, at the Wutongyuan construction site in Nanjing, Zhang Qin, who was saving liquidated damages for the normal school, met Li Jun, a simple welder, in the reinforced concrete room. The affection of half a pack of cigarettes and the ten-year promise on the cigarette pack made two ordinary people hold hands in poverty, and with sweat and sincerity, their longing for family and love were built brick by brick into the years. They guarded a cassette player together and learned to write the word "love" in the rainy night in the work shed; they sacrificed their lives to protect each other during a typhoon and made a promise of blooming jasmine flowers beside the sand pile; the 28th bar carried the dream of college, and the aerial camera on the top of the Purple Mountain captured the heartbeat under the stars; in the late winter of 1998, in the wet concrete on the roof of the 18th floor, Li Jun sealed the silver ring with a plain ring polished by his own hands, and also sealed the vows of a lifetime. From the construction site to the campus, from the small home in Wutong Garden to the podium of the rural primary school, side by side, they have been together through thick and thin for twenty-five years. A bowl of hot soup, a note, and a bush of jasmine are all the appearance of their love. In 2023, Wutong Garden was renovated, and the silver ring sealed by cement came to light again. The inscriptions on the inner ring and the secret confession under the cement finally made the deep love hidden in the cracks of the bricks shine with the gentlest light in time. This is a pyrotechnic love that spans half a lifetime. There is no grandeur, only sincerity. Cement will crack and steel bars will rust, but two hearts that are closely connected to each other are stronger than concrete and longer than years.