Insecure and sensitive x proud and strong-willed
At seventeen, Jiang Qingyue moved from Xining, Qinghai, to Haizhou, Guangdong, because of her household registration. There, she was overjoyed to meet someone who made her fall in love at first sight.
Yasong Bookstore was a place they could never leave behind. Ripples spread across Weisu Lake. In the end, Yasong closed and the lake was filled in, just like the past they had lost.
Jiang Qingyue will always remember that year: one bowl of noodles, two pairs of chopsticks. She had never realized anyone could have such a hard life. In despair, she asked if the other girl had ever thought of giving up. Of course she had. There had been countless moments when she wanted to die and end it all, but for her sake, she held on. On Jiang Qingyue's eighteenth birthday, she lit the candles, wishing with all her heart that the girl would survive. In the hospital, the cold machines let out a piercing shriek.
Tears fell from the corners of her eyes and gathered into a little river. At the river's farthest end, they pointed toward her.
On the day of the college entrance exam, she didn't go. At dawn, she ran to the girl's grave and laid down a bouquet of balloon flowers.
She was an ideal world Jiang Qingyue could never touch.
Who was the one she loved but could never have: her, or her?
“Xia Mingyue, I'm going to learn to forget you.”
[Healing x Love That Grows Over Time x School Life x Unrequited Love]
