[Pain of Youth➕Extreme One-way Secret Love➕BE Aesthetics➕Difficult to Let Go]
[Zhou Jinye × Xu Zhiyuan] [Silent and lonely boy vs. Sunny and humble girl]
At the beginning of the story, Xu Zhiyuan was a kite tied by strings. That thread is parents' expectations, everyone's eyes, and the definition of a "good girl." She follows the established trajectory and never deviates.
What Zhou Jinye saw was the wound caused by the string.
So he started to stay behind her silently. He's not the type to grab a kite string - he's meant to do something else: become the wind.
It takes a reckless gust of wind for the kite to break free.
He cleared the way for her and blocked the hands that wanted to drag her back to the ground. He burned away his remaining warmth just to lift her up to a higher sky.
He knew better than anyone else - the moment the wind stopped, the kite would fall or float out of his reach. But he doesn't care.
He just wanted her to taste flying without being tied down by any ropes.
When he finally burned the cord, and when Xu Zhiyuan broke away from all the shackles, she discovered——
It turns out that I was never a kite.
If the string of the kite is broken, it will only fall. But she didn't. She spread her wings as she fell.
She has always been a flying bird, but she has been tied as a kite for too long.
Then she flew away and he burned out. After the wind stopped, the wilderness was silent.
"Zhou Jinye was only seen once by Xu Zhiyuan in his life. That time, she spent a minute and he spent a lifetime."
