Chunyi

This is a story about redemption and tenderness in spring. Xu Qing is a girl who is accustomed to endure the cold violence at home. Excellent grades are her only armor, but she only gets her father's indifference and harsh criticism. At that alleyway, when she was in a panic, she bumped into Yan Yu sitting on the wall - the troubled top student who always competed with her for the top spot in the grade and who was said to be "lucky". He witnessed her embarrassment, but instead of mocking her, he clumsily bandaged her wounds and quietly put away the trampled certificate. After becoming tablemates, Yan Yu's seemingly undisciplined care seeped into Xu Qing's closed world little by little: fending off malicious provocations for her, sharing simple meals, and taking her to see secret corners hidden in the junk pile. Xu Qing gradually discovered that this seemingly rebellious boy who slept in class had an unknown softness - he took care of his grandmother who picked up scraps and worked silently on competition questions. The bruises on his wrists were traces of helping the old man work. And when she was getting along with Yan Yu, she felt the warmth of being cared for for the first time, like the winter jasmine blooming quietly in spring, lighting up her wrinkled life. The indifference of the family, the alienation of the mother, and the irritability of the father are still the same, but this spring, because of the emergence of words, the promise of "treat me to eat popsicles if you are the first in the exam", and the simple expectation of catching a baby, the ice in Xu Qing's heart began to melt. Those longings hidden behind the grievances finally touched a ray of light called "tenderness" in this flower-scented season.