Seventeen-year-old Jiang Lin believed that youth was an equation that could be solved.
Until he met Ye Yao under the scorching sun of military training - the girl who used a highlighter to draw a four-leaf clover on the wrong question book, wrote the Lorentz force formula as a love poem, and used a thermos cup to draw a force analysis diagram on his palm when the final whistle of the basketball game sounded.
Jiang Lin's youth was divided into countless moments: the overlapping shadows under the leaky ceiling light in the equipment room, the oxidized black camellia hairpin buried in the roots of the old locust tree, the "Jiang & Ye" dyed pink by phenolphthalein on the chemical experiment report, and the MP3 that Ye Yao stuffed into his schoolbag the night before the college entrance examination - "Sunny Day" and a trembling "Goodbye in the parallel universe" were looped in it.
When the shadow of the camphor tree climbed onto the graduation photo, when "forever" collided with "reality", Jiang Lin finally understood——
First love is an unsolvable problem. What cannot be solved is the electromagnetic wave that refused to attenuate when she was seventeen years old, the gold powder that always flickers on Ye Yao's eyelashes, the unfinished kiss in the blind spot of the surveillance camera, and the most stubborn resonance frequency in the entire universe.
Youth is a Brownian motion. We know there is no end, but we still have to collide with light and heat.
Reader comments
The writing is good and the author writes with great care. It just doesn't feel like a novel. Kind of like a short story. The story is compact and the content is good.
The writing is good and the author writes with great care. It just doesn't feel like a novel. Kind of like a short story. The story is compact and the content is good.