“When moonlight passed through my fingers, I realized I had long since become someone else’s moon.”
Su Yunyan first met Lin Chi in her first year of high school.
Back then, the boy had a buzz cut. He walked toward her in the fading light of sunset.
One glimpse was enough to stay with her for eight years.
People say the one you love but can’t have becomes your moonlight, and every love that comes after resembles him.
So after Lin Chi disappeared, Su Yunyan dated Wang Mufeng, who had the same buzz cut, then got together with Chen Fuxiu in her senior year, whose eyes resembled Lin Chi’s.
She knew it was awful to treat people like stand-ins.
But moonlight was moonlight: no one who came later could ever compare. Even if I love you deeply, I still think of him. He is my heartbeat, my one and only, my moon.
But she also knew the moon was the moon. It belonged in the sky, not fallen here on earth.
“At that moment, I caught the moonlight, and almost believed he was my moon…”
