See You Later

[Youth Regret × Campus Secret Love × BE Aesthetics x Completion] ———— In the summer of her eighteenth year, when the cicadas were chirping at their peak, Lin Yiqing said, "I'll wait for your birthday and I have something to say to you." When they first met, he was an top student by the window, as cold as ice. It wasn't until he nicknamed her with a smile and gave her snacks to stray cats that she realized that there was warmth hidden under the cold shell. Unspoken feelings mixed with the wind of graduation season, quietly growing. On the evening of July 1st, he gave her a glass jar filled with stars: "See you tomorrow." In the early morning, Chi Bi squatted under the lamp and opened it. Each star had words written on it - from "It would be good to chat with her more" to "This summer is very long, enough for the seeds in my heart to germinate in the evening breeze." Three years of thoughts were hidden in the starlight. The last one read: "The stars in the jar are here. The rest should be told to her face to face." At dawn, she sent a message: "I saw the stars, when will you come?" The reply was like an ice pick: "No time, grandma is gone, can you understand something?" She ran madly towards his house, saw his red eyes, and heard him yell: "Who asked you to come? Go back!" When turning around, Chi Bie thought in his mind: "How did you know then that Broken Star can't come back, and those who say they're leaving won't wait. But we haven't said goodbye yet... We'll meet again later, right?" Later I found out that in the early morning, he was guarding his grandmother's portrait and coughed until he vomited blood, and his phone was still stuck on the cake ordering interface. She only heard "go back" and didn't see the star paper he clenched into pieces. "See you later" were the words he left unsaid and became her obsession for the rest of her life. The star jar on the bookshelf glows at night, reminding me of the summer when I was eighteen.