In 1999, in an old alley in the south of the city, 9-year-old Lin Shuan picked up a lame local dog and named him "General". He also picked up the silent young man Qiao Yanchuan behind him who was always bullied. She is the sunflower in summer, trading candied haws for his secrets, leading him to build a "cosmic headquarters" in an abandoned water tank, and drawing the galactic promise of two stars; he is the silent shadow, remembering her red rope bell, hiding her embarrassment during menarche, and climbing the pipe to listen to the radio with her on rainy nights.
But in the summer when I was 18, a corner of my graduation photo was missing. Qiao Yanchuan left behind a copy of the Oxford Dictionary, which read "When I grow up, I will marry you" on page 46, and then disappeared through the airport security checkpoint. Lin Shuan used a black pen to erase the promise, thinking that his childhood universe was crushed by bulldozers along with the sunflower fields.
When we meet again ten years later, he is the feared "King of Hell" in the business world, but he hides the tenderness of his youth toward her; she is an ordinary employee whose edges have been smoothed by life. Faced with his approach, she is both wary and greedy for that familiar light. The sunflower specimens in the water tank are still there, and the gap in the Milky Way is waiting to be filled. It turns out that some promises were made by the young man as early as that afternoon of cicada chirping in 1999, and he spent half his life waiting to be fulfilled.
Reader comments
Read directly from the second volume, it's great. It's very compact and the heroine is very inspiring. Still a little ss
Read directly from the second volume, it's great. It's very compact and the heroine is very inspiring. Still a little ss