[Two male protagonists + urban emotion + redemption]
Qinglin: The abandoned son of the Gu family, with scars marked by flames on his back. Silence is like a deep pool, but it will hide tenderness in the heat of boiling sugar. To protect Xia Ying, it can instantly ignite the fierceness of starting a prairie fire. The sugar bowl is his obsession and his salvation.
Xia Ying: The survivor with the out-of-tune silver whistle, whose leg injury hides the memory of the fire scene. He is as soft as a marshmallow, but he dares to use a wooden stick to fight against the light of a sword. The whistle is his armor and his exclusive password for Qinglin.
Introduction to "The Unopened Evening Breeze":
The attic fire burned Qinglin's sugar bowl, but it couldn't burn away his obsession hidden in the ashes. Until I met Xia Ying, the young man who played "Little Star" so off-key that he always gave him strawberry candies and said, "Enough is enough, it's time to get better."
When the silver whistle blew in the ruins, the charred painting revealed the starry sky that Gu Nian had not finished painting. They cooked sugar in an abandoned candy factory, using the acidity of lemons to coat the sweetness of strawberries, to fight against the lingering shadow of the Gu family. The bronze star's long life lock is shaking in the wind, as if someone is saying "Don't be afraid."
Only later did I understand: Those burn scars, teardrops, and out-of-tune whistles had already boiled their lives into a candy that could not be opened. The sweetness wrapped in the astringent shell was the eyes they looked at each other, and the gentleness of the evening breeze that finally opened the package.
