The starlight in the cochlea is the candy you handed me
I heard the wind smashing against the window lattice, and I heard the chirping of cicadas tearing apart the midsummer, but the sound of the world was always lost in the noise of the crowd.
The electric current in the hearing aid made a sizzling sound, which was an invisible wall between me and the world.
Until I met Jiang Chenglei.
He would slow down his words and let his lips fall in my eyes; he would protect me behind his harsh ridicule; he would rub "I love you" into the warmth of his palms, so that I could hear my heartbeat without having to listen.
And Miao Zhixia, the girl who has accompanied me throughout my youth, we shared the same popsicle and licked each other's wounds. She used to be my sun, but she faded under the pressure of a key high school, until Jiang Che appeared and took care of her sensitive and fragile self for me.
Youth is a grand tinnitus. Some people leave, some betray, and some come with starlight.
It turns out that being favored by someone can turn even the noise in the cochlea into the most tender words of love in the world.
